Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.
Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.
The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.