I Was Writing Novels In High School

I Am More Or Less Reading All The Time.

The Folly Of War Is That It Can Have No Natural End Except In The Extinction An Entire People.

To Choose The Ideal Voice For A Character Is To Give A Character An Ardent And Vivid Life, To Allow Him Or Her To Speak, Rather Than Speaking For Them, In An Older Style Of Omniscient Narration.

But He Doesn't Love Her. I Invented That. It Is A Plot If You Imagine People In Love--the Lazy Looping Criss Crosses Of Love, Blows, Stares, Tears. No. It Doesn't Happen. No Love. People Meet, Touch, Stare Into One Another's Faces, Shake Their Heads Clear, Move On, Forget. It Doesn't Happen.

Yet I Will Make You All Love Me And I Will Punish Myself To Spite Your Love.