If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.
When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.
I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.
Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.