Not Every Novel That Wants To Be

Charles Dickens Was An Avid Seeker Of Names - He Read Directories And Looked For Odd Names On Gravestones.

A Horse Herd Was, In Its Very Essence, The Manifestation Of The Expression 'it's Always Something.

A Reader's Tastes Are Peculiar. Choosing Books To Read Is Like Making Your Way Down A Remote And Winding Path. Your Stops On That Path Are Always Idiosyncratic. One Book Leads To Another And Another The Way One Thought Leads To Another And Another. My Type Of Reader Is The Sort Who Burrows Through The Stacks In The Bookstore Or The Library (or The Web Site — Stacks Are Stacks), Yielding To Impulse And Instinct.

I Was An Only Child. I've Known Only Children. From This Experience, I Do Believe That The Children Should Outnumber The Parents.

Twenty-five, He Was. Twenty-five Tomorrow. Some Years The Snow Had Melted For His Birthday, But Not This Year, And So It Had Been A Long Winter Full Of Cows.