I Have A Long List Of Things

To Label Me An Intellectual Is A Misunderstanding Of What That Is.

Every Writer Knows That Unless You Were Born Gifted With Either Supreme Confidence Or Outsize Ego, Handing In Your Work Holds, In Some Cases, Admitted Terror. If That's Too Strong, At Least Fairly High Anxiety.

If You Have A Relative Who's Lost Interest In Everything And Doesn't Get Out Of Bed, Who Doesn't Care For Things They Used To, Can't Imagine Anything That Would Give Them Any Pleasure, Don't Fool Around With It; Get Therapy, Get Help, Get Medication If That's Right For You, Or Talk Therapy, Or Something.

Lawyers Work Hard And, Like Us, They're Human, Many Of Them.

The Trick To Writing For People Is, You Have To Be Able To Turn Them On In Your Head. And Know How They'd Word Something Or How They'd Inflect It.