Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?
No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.
I find it very difficult to talk about unwritten works. It's never useful to start putting words casually around the flimsiest of notions. I finished Saturday only in late November and I'm now in the rather pleasant stage of traveling, reading and waiting.
...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.
When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.