Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.
...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.
With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.
We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
Only the nonreader fears books.
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.