We Live, We Die, We Are Remembered,

This Was Long Before The Term 'single-parent Family' Came Into Use; Back Then It Was A 'broken Home'.

When You Are Writing Fiction Your Task Is To Reflect The Fullest Complications Of The World

There Will Always Be Non-readers, Bad Readers, Lazy Readers - There Always Were.

When You Are In Your Twenties, Even If You're Confused And Uncertain About Your Aims And Purposes, You Have A Strong Sense Of What Life Itself Is, And Of What You In Life Are, And Might Become. Later.. Later There Is More Uncertainty, More Overlapping, More Backtracking, More False Memories. Back Then, You Can Remember Your Short Life In Its Entirety. Later, The Memory Becomes A Thing Of Shreds And Patches.

You Grew Old First Not In Your Own Eyes, But In Other People's Eyes; Then, Slowly, You Agreed With Their Opinion Of You.