For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn.

Find What Gave You Emotion; What The Action Was That Gave You Excitement. Then Write It Down Making It Clear So That The Reader Can See It Too. Prose Is Architecture, Not Interior Decoration, And The Baroque Is Over.

I Hate A Cramp, He Thought. It Is A Treachery Of One's Own Body.

My Life Used To Be Full Of Everything. Now If You Aren't With Me I Haven't A Thing In The World.

Write Hard And Clear About What Hurts.

Summer Is A Discouraging Time To Work - You Don't Feel Death Coming On The Way It Does In The Fall When The Boys Really Put Pen To Paper.