I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen
among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all
My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.
In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.