Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.
You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
Irritation for some men was their response to strain.
Beast Mode doesnt make excuses. It doesnt complain. Whatever youre doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.
Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.
I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality. . . The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them; they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.
We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at on the page. That isn't the case. While that's important, context is so much wider than a handful of verses.