If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.

No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him your bicep.