I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
Marisha PesslIt was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface. (In the more dangerous cases, it created a lasting whirlpool in which the strongest swimmers could drown.)
Marisha PesslDad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.
Marisha PesslI haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
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