Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. November 6, 1965
Birthday: November 6
You're getting like an attitude. What you get put through for just wanting something more out of life. Makes you vulnerable. Inside, that tug of desperation, trying not to be excited, maybe this is it, and it's usually freaks and you want to shout I'm not like you.
source: - Sandra Newman (2002). “The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel”, Vintage
Topics: Life, Attitude, Trying
Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess. A half-good sex scene is not half as hot; it actually moves into the negative numbers, draining any heat from the surrounding material.
Topics: Cute, Sex, Moving, Draining, Good Sex
Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.
Topics: Giving, People, Taste, Insecticides