Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard and pay attention you can do a good job of it.

So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.

I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.