The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving.