It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
There's nothing as scary as the future.
It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.