“Over the years, I've made good money in real estate, and for some reason, this hurts Stephen's feelings. He's not a churchman, but he's extremely big on piety and sacrifice and letting you know what fine values he's got. As… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
“She was molten in my bed, but she also suffered depressions that were very dear to her.” — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
“It turned out to be just his sort of life in Melbourne [Florida] -- a little three-room mini apartment to himself, and down on the strip, five different bars where you had women going around in bathing suits. In the backyard, his mother's new husband had grown a miraculous tree, a lemon trunk grafted with orange, tangerine, satsuma, kumquat, and… — Wells Tower Copy Share
“It didn't make much sense to me then, what Gnut was going through, but after Pila and me had our little twins, and we put a family together, I got an understanding of how terrible love can be. You wish you hated those people, your wife and children, because you know the things the world will do to them, because… — Wells Tower Copy Share
“The bell on the cat's collar roused her. He'd brought her something: a baby pigeon stolen from its nest, mauled and draped on Jacey's pillowcase. The thing was pink, nearly translucent, with magenta cheeks and lavender around the eyes. It looked like a half-cooked eraser with dreams of someday becoming a prostitute. -- Wild America” — Wells Tower Copy Share
“I was just kind of tripping out on what getting shot is all about. How it's just you getting touched by a little thing,… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
“The Brown Coast" "Not long after the affair had run its course, Bob and his wife were driving to town when Vicky looked up and saw the phantom outline of a woman's footprint on the windshield over the glove box. She slipped her sandal off, saw that the print did not match her own, and told Bob that he was… — Wells Tower Copy Share
“Down Through the Valley" "When Jane left me for Barry Kramer, it was a heavy kind of hurt, but by the time she took… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff. — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
“With two hours until her mother picked her up, Janey was alone, woozy and heart-swollen in the downtown, wandering wet streets that gleamed as… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
“Retreat" "I can't explain why I did these things, except to say that I carry a little imp inside me whose ambrosia is my… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world seem like… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
