When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
Nothing made me happen. I happened.
You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.
You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.