“ And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can. ”
The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.
~ Tobias Wolff
I'm a survivor, I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.
a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.