I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of material: how to structure it, what sort of sentences (direct, elliptical, simple or compound, syntactically elaborate), what tone (in art, "tone" is everything), pacing. Paragraphing is a way of dramatization, as the look of a poem on a page is dramatic; where to break lines, where to end sentences.

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.

Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.