Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.
Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.
Family. A snug kind of word.
It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.