If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.

Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.