I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.
Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.
And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.
Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams. " (Harry Braxton)
She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought.
No one ever fell in love gracefully.
She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago.
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.