Kids Own Nothing. Everything Is Either Promised,

If I Don't Feel Like Writing Today Or For A Few Days, I Don't. And I Don't Think About It. It Is Not An Obligation-it Is The Greatest Privilege.

I Started A Short Story But It Was So Dreary That Even My Pen Threw Up.

For An Adult, Eating Alone At Mcdonald's Is Admitting A Kind Of Defeat.

A Short Story Is A Sprint, A Novel Is A Marathon. Sprinters Have Seconds To Get From Here To There And Then They Are Finished. Marathoners Have To Carefully Pace Themselves So That They Don't Run Out Of Energy (or In The Case Of The Novelist-- Ideas) Because They Have So Far To Run. To Mix The Metaphor, Writing A Short Story Is Like Having A Short Intense Affair, Whereas Writing A Novel Is Like A Long Rich Marriage.

I Don't Like To Have To Pan For Gold When I Read.