Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.