My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be...
Wait
Parking
Carefully negotiated his way
Blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as untouchables.
We rarely act from logic when facing the critical choices of our lives.
There’s nothing like a mystery to distract you from reality.
The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing. Life is simple.
Some stories must wait to be told. Any writer worth his salt knows this. Sometimes you wait for events to percolate in your subconscious until a deeper truth emerges; other times you’re simply waiting...
Now it turns out he was having sex with his babysitter, and they’re so pissed off they’re about to pop. But their anger’s not really about Kate, you know? It’s about them. They feel betrayed. They put...
Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be.
Lenz snorts. My mistake.
Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.
I’m a big believer in first lines. If a writer doesn’t grab you with their first sentence, even in a literary novel, they might need to think about another line of work.
Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. Annie
Caitlin’s ambition is like a third person in the car.
Sleeve,
Learned a long time ago, if you’re going to wait for this world to be fair, you’re going to be waiting in the grave.
Because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin,
A military base, to check out the story.