If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.
John DufresneReading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.
John DufresneReading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.
John DufresneI lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.
John Dufresne