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• I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I…
• We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He…
• We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?
• I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
• I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to…
• Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
• I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
• ...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.

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