Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.
That was the problem with reading you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.
The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.
I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.