We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.
And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.