I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.

When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing

I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor — but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny.