In A Rough Way The Short Story

Their Silence Comfortable. Something Unfolding. But What? Not Love, Which Wrenched And Wounded. Not Love, Which Came Only Once.

Ordinary Parties, He Thought, Were Subtle Games Of Sexual And Social Badminton.

Anyway, There's Something Wrong With Everybody And It's Up To You To Know What You Can Handle.

You Should Write Because You Love The Shape Of Stories And Sentences And The Creation Of Different Words On A Page. Writing Comes From Reading, And Reading Is The Finest Teacher Of How To Write.

And I Think That's Important, To Know How The Water's Gone Over The Dam Before You Start To Describe It. It Helps To Have Been Over The Dam Yourself.