There's One Novel, Cujo, That

The Writer's Original Perception Of A Character Or Characters May Be As Erroneous As The Reader's.

Your First Impulse Is To Share Good News, Your Second Is To Club Someone With It.

All I Can Say Is What You Already Know: Some Days Are Treasure. Not Many, But I Think In Almost Every Life There Are A Few. That Was One Of Mine, And When I'm Blue -- When Life Comes Down On Me And Everything Looks Tawdry And Cheap, The Way Joyland Avenue Did On A Rainy Day -- I Go Back To It, If Only To Remind Myself That Life Isn't Always A Butcher's Game. Sometimes The Prizes Are Real. Sometimes They Are Precious.

Friends Come In And Out Of Our Lives, Like Busboys In A Restaurant.

Formula: Second Draft = First Draft Minus 10%.