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

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules and traditional mores, the maintenance of hierarchical relationships, and absolute ideas of right and wrong. Any society based on the latter will find novels inherently immoral and subversive.

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

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