This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.