Anytime You Write About Priests Or Cops,

Sometimes If There's A Book You Really Want To Read, You Have To Write It Yourself.

I Wanted To Eat Her Pain, Take It Into Me And Make It My Own.

I Was Starting To Wonder If I Was Ready To Be A Writer, Not Someone Who Won Prizes, Got Published And Was Given The Time And Space To Work, But Someone Who Wrote As A Course Of Life. Maybe Writing Wouldn't Have Any Rewards. Maybe The Salvation I Would Gain Through Work Would Only Be Emotional And Intellectual. Wouldn't That Be Enough, To Be A Waitress Who Found An Hour Or Two Hidden In Every Day To Write?

The Kind Of Love That Offers Its Life So Easily, So Stupidly, Is Always The Love That Is Not Returned.

People Always Say, "can Writing Be Taught?" I Always Think, I Can Teach You How To Write A Better Sentence, How To Do Dialogue, How To Do Character, But I Can't Teach You How To Be A Decent Person, And I Can't Teach You How To Have Something To Say.