We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.
Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.