All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.

The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.