When writing is what drives you, and it’s the one thing you know you’re good at—or want to be good at—even low points and ...

In the decade leading up to writing her novel for children, Madeleine L’Engle draped her typewriter like a paramedic drapes the body of a victim awaiting transport to the morgue. Pam Mellskog / Mommy ...

Natalie Goldberg shoots from the hip. The the author of Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Goldberg is an artist and teacher who doesn't suffer fools, mince words, or waiver in her ...

Some years ago in a rebel-held enclave of Sudan, I met a man whom I had reported as assassinated. He was chief Hussein Karbus, and I was introduced to him by the man I had said killed him, the ...