There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

Novelists never have to footnote.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.

Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.