Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.
Tom RachmanThe training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
Tom Rachman