The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow along and see where it goes. That's the fun.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands.