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Bright and wild like fire. Ha. Friendless and alone like a pathetic loser was more like it.

She was like having our own nanny, the Sex Nanny Sent By Satan.

Political utopianism1 is tyranny disguised as a desirable, workable, and even paradisiacal governing ideology.

if our rights are not unalienable, if they don't come from a source higher than ourselves, then they're malleable at the will of the state. This is a prescription for tyranny.

T]o consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine

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The Devil has all the best tunes? My arse! Metalville just got a new sheriff.

Do you want to come for a walk with me?" "With Pepper? I'm busy…" "No, not with the dog. Further

If I've learned anything it's that writing is an arduous but joyful craft. It calls upon hidden resources & the process is its own reward.

I think a good novel is a slow reveal--of the character and the plot. It's a process of discovery for the reader.

If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.

Time, effort & persistence make for the writing of a good novel. There's no such thing as "writer's block." Just reluctance to make the slog

A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

Drama is the key. Conflict is central. Even in non-fiction.

Without conflict, there is no story. Without a story, there is no novel--only the author's self-indulgent musings.

I look at revision as a sort of creative destruction--you break a script down and rebuild parts of it more imaginatively, yet remaining true to the story.

Plot-driven or character-driven, a novel must grab the reader's emotions and not let go til the final word.

Creativity isn't defined by word count, or the number of books one has published. A writer makes a commitment to stretch as far as possible, reaching for the music of words.

I truly believe a novelist must arrive at an altered state of consciousness to reach that creative zone where the fingers fly & the words flow.

discerning," Roddy says. The wine makes Danny

The greatest act of self-education I've ever undertaken has been to become a writer.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.