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A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing. If you get past that and grown, it’s easiest to forget about the misery and pretend you knew all along what you were doing. Assuming you’ve ended up someplace you’re proud to be. And if not, easier to forget the whole thing, period.

Keeping secrets from young ears only plants seeds in between them

People love to believe in danger, as long as it’s you in harm’s way, and them saying bless your heart.

one good piece of luck that comes with the baggie birth: it’s this promise from God that you’ll never drown

Anybody will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.

Maybe I’m not a writer because I write, but someone who writes to become a writer, if that makes sense.

Maybe I’m just doing this because it’s the only thing I figured out how to do, because I could write well enough to try. But there’s always fear, lurking. What if I’m going through the motions?

Once someone has read a book, or even just held it in their hands, the author of the book takes on a mystique, even if the reader had never heard of them before and would never hear of them again.

People who don’t know writers are always interested in them because they imagine something genteel. Writers, more than other people, are sociopaths. They turn ruthless on a dime. Especially the good ones.

I did toy with writing, to be honest, but I lost my confidence along the way. I found that creative failure is a hole that only gets bigger once it cracks open.

at the end of the day writing should be left at the office, even if you don’t have an office. It doesn’t change your worth

Only among writers did having a job qualify as gossip.

From the beginning of time, after all, writers had written to share what was possible in life, not what was irreparable. Nobody ever needed to memorialize the coldness of life to know it.

People never understood that writers did not really want to write; they wanted to have written—a sentiment misattributed to a dozen famous authors throughout history, none of whom actually wrote that, but no doubt felt it.

People never understood that writers did not really want to write; they wanted to have written—a sentiment misattributed to a dozen famous authors throughout history, none of whom actually wrote that, but no doubt felt it.

Maybe he was a writer in part because when he was writing, he could revise until he sounded sure of himself.