Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
Connecticut is in my blood.
Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.