Good Authors Mature Over Time: It Does

A Preoccupation With The Next World Clearly Shows An Inability To Cope Credibly With This One.

I Have So Little Patience With The Whole Y.a. Book Thing. As Far As I'm Concerned, You Either Read Books For Children Or You Read Books For Adults.

Good Authors Mature Over Time: It Does Take Awhile. Travel Abroad And Learn To Live In Other Cultures. That's One Of The Things About Teaching Abroad.

Certainly A Decade And A Half Out In The Real World, Bashing My Head Against Things, Probably Made Me Into A More Textured Writer. It Gives You Something To Write About.

When A Man You Know To Be Of Sound Mind Tells You His Recently Deceased Mother Has Just Tried To Climb In His Bedroom Window And Eat Him, You Only Have Two Basic Options. You Can Smell His Breath, Take His Pulse And Check His Pupils To See If He's Ingested Anything Nasty, Or You Can Believe Him.