Wilkinson acknowledges, ''but I mostly side-stepped them. Still, in any relationship, including marriage, issues arise when the balance changes drastically or great success is achieved suddenly. It's only natural. You're both moving toward the same point, and some accommodation must be made. In my case, I grew out of being Bill's son to being something like a friend and colleague. |
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep. |
I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living |
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. |
It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about. |
My interest in literature hasn't decreased. It just gets more passionate, actually. |
My wife has to tell me I haven't said anything all day. I've stopped talking, and I'm totally unaware of it. |
No directions came with this idea. |
Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives in an anthology, that's enough. |
The view after 70 is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters. |
They're not making as much money on trading, and that's just consistently across the board. |
This is how one feels in the presence of a work of art. |
Your reader is at least as bright as you are |