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I Would Have Given Him Everything. I Would Have Pulled Down Planets To Make Our Life Work.

If You Are A Success In Life, There Are Places You Must Go And Pay To Be Humiliated. It Is An Unwritten Law That Human Beings Must Be Tormented Throughout Their Lives In One Way Or Another. If You Are Fortunate Enough To Have Risen To A Social Level Where No One Does It To You For Free, Then You Must Pay For The Service.

A Short Story Is A Sprint, A Novel Is A Marathon. Sprinters Have Seconds To Get From Here To There And Then They Are Finished. Marathoners Have To Carefully Pace Themselves So That They Don't Run Out Of Energy (or In The Case Of The Novelist-- Ideas) Because They Have So Far To Run. To Mix The Metaphor, Writing A Short Story Is Like Having A Short Intense Affair, Whereas Writing A Novel Is Like A Long Rich Marriage.

Why Do People Always Gesture With Their Hands When They Talk On The Phone?

There's Almost Always A Point In A Book Where Something Happens That Triggers The Rest Of The Plot.