I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every...
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from the psychiatrist's couch or even the lovers' bed. You see the soul, pinned and wriggling on the...
It wouldn't matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged
One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged
Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn't mean people will let you forget about what you've done wrong…Be encouraged
Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged
A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged
Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end,...