I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.
Recently abandoned women can be complicated.
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.
He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.