Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.