With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart.

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

Live as if you have faith,” she said, “and faith shall be given to you.

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!