You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people.

We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.