I Know So Many Writers Who Are

With Every Lecture, You’re Forced To Look Again At Every Choice You’ve Made Over The Lesson-by-lesson Chain Of Your Entire Life. And After All These Years, You See How Little You Have To Work With, How Limited Your Life And Education Have Been. How Scant Was Your Courage And Curiosity. Not To Mention Your Expectations.

Telling Some Stories, Miss Leroy Says, Is Committing Suicide.

If People Thought You Were Dying, They Gave You Their Full Attention.

A Writer’s Job Is To Cultivate What Can Go Wrong.

I Try To Tell A Story The Way Someone Would Tell You A Story In A Bar, With The Same Kind Of Timing And Pacing.