It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.