How Can You Stop Writing?

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The Essays In The Great Taos Bank Robbery Were My Project To Win A Master Of Arts Degree In English When I Quit Being A Newspaper Editor And Went Back To College.

I Always Try To Make The Setting Fit The Story I Have In Mind.

You Write For Two People, Yourself And Your Audience, Who Are Usually Better Educated And At Least As Smart.

Having Grown Up In Oklahoma When It Was One Of The Last States Which Prohibited Liquor, I Grew Up With War On Drugs, Where Every Teenager Knew Who The Bootleggers Were