Get all the crap out of your diet, just do it right for a week. Then just see what can happen.
I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end of the spectrum is journalism, which is much more cerebral, more thought-out and planned. Fiction lies somewhere in between. I usually start intuitively but eventually I need to stop and consider structure, or research, or both.
I'm never afraid of research. I relish it!
Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.
Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.