As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
I'm among the first girls ever to play Little League baseball, and to my knowledge, the very first in western Illinois. It was 1976, and I was a nine-year-old tomboy whose older brothers had played. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
The distinctions of what makes a book one genre or another can sometimes be a bit muddy, but generally it's a matter of projecting… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
There are as many routes to writing success as there are writers who got there. My advice, however, applies across the board: read widely,… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't always occur… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
“Life's most profound moments were, paradoxically, its most common ones: first breaths, and last.” — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
