Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.
If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.
Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.