Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.