As Long As We Remember

If Asked To Name The Worst Moment Of His Life, Michael Fisher Wouldn't Have Hesitated To Give His Answer: It Was When The Lights Went Out.

It's Different Being Afraid When There's The Hope It Will Amount To Something.

There Was Something In The Pages Of These Books That Had The Power To Make Him Feel Better About Things, A Life Raft To Cling To Before The Dark Currents Of Memory Washed Him Downstream Again, And On Brighter Days, He Could Even See Himself Going On This Way For Some Time. A Small But Passable Life. And Then, Of Course, The End Of The World Happened.

Writers Who Pretend That Everything They're Doing Is Completely New Are Full Of It.

If You Write A Good Action Sequence Well In A Novel, You're Already Writing It For Film, Because The Only Way To Do It Well Is To Use Some Of The Same Tricks. They're Rhetorical, Not Visual, But It's The Same Move.