Losing My Parents Really Set Me Adrift

All Great Popular Literature Today One Day Will Be Seen As Great Literature And Will No Longer Be Seen As Popular Literature.

I Used To Worry About Money And Career And What Was Going To Happen. How Was I Gonna Succeed Or Fail In The World? And I Thought About It Enough That I'm No Longer Worried About It. I'm Not... I Don't Worry About What's Gonna Happen In My Life. I Don't Worry About Telling Me About Dying, My Own Mortality. That's A Given.

That's How Powerful You Are, Girl...you Pretty, But Pretty Alone Is Not What People See. You The Kinda Pretty, The Kinda Beauty, That's Like A Mirror. Men And Women See Themselves In You, Only Now They So Beautiful That They Can't Bear To See You Go.

Many Writers-in-waiting Spend A Lot Of Time Avoiding The Work At Hand. The Most Common Way To Avoid Writing Is By Procrastination. This Is The Writer's Greatest Enemy. There Is Little To Say About It Except That Once You Decide To Write Every Day, You Must Make Yourself Sit At The Desk Or Table For The Required Period Whether Or Not You Are Putting Down Words. Make Yourself Take The Time Even If The Hours Seem Fruitless. Ideally, After A Few Days Or Weeks Of Being Chained To The Desk, You Will Submit To The Story That Must Be Told.

The Job Of The Writer Is To Take A Close And Uncomfortable Look At The World They Inhabit, The World We All Inhabit, And The Job Of The Novel Is To Make The Corpse Stink.