A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

I would have to say all he needs is a little bit to go his way. If a little bit read more

I would have to say all he needs is a little bit to go his way. If a little bit goes his way, I think it can happen for him this year.

The people inside the game know about Romeo and what he can do. To the Browns' credit, they saw it, read more

The people inside the game know about Romeo and what he can do. To the Browns' credit, they saw it, too, and hired him.

Cowards can never be moral.

Cowards can never be moral.

An account of some of these acts makes Henry Miller's crudest imaginations seem as chaste as a nun's diary.

An account of some of these acts makes Henry Miller's crudest imaginations seem as chaste as a nun's diary.

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the read more

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.

Joy always came after pain.

Joy always came after pain.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into read more

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.