How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
The only decent bone in her body was mine.
I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.
Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.