Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.
Ha! Don__ you know that writers are control freaks? We make our characters dance to our own weird tunes. That__ half the fun.__he angled his head ever so slowly to the right. __hat__ the other half?_ Just as the position became uncomfortable, she reversed the motion.__ewriting,_ he said. __ou know how you think of a brilliant response to an insult six hours later when it__ utterly useless? A writer has a time machine. I can go back to the moment the insult was hurled and parry it with my slow but rapier-sharp wit.___elax. I__e got you,_ she said, rotating his head gently to the right. __ guess us nonwriters think you just sit down at your computer and the book comes out the way we read it.___e foster that myth. It makes us seem more like creative geniuses and less like mere craftsmen.
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Ha! Don__ you know that writers are control freaks? We make our characters dance to our own weird tunes. That__ half the fun.__he angled his head ever so slowly to the right. __hat__ the other half?_ Just as the position became uncomfortable, she reversed the motion.__ewriting,_ he said. __ou know how you think of a brilliant response to an insult six hours later when it__ utterly useless? A writer has a time machine. I can go back to the moment the insult was hurled and parry it with my slow but rapier-sharp wit.___elax. I__e got you,_ she said, rotating his head gently to the right. __ guess us nonwriters think you just sit down at your computer and the book comes out the way we read it.___e foster that myth. It makes us seem more like creative geniuses and less like mere craftsmen.
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Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish.
Franklin Fletcher dreamed of luxury in the form of tiger-skins and beautiful women. He was prepared, at a pinch, to forgo the tiger-skins. Unfortunately the beautiful women seemed equally rare and inaccessible. At his office and at his boarding-house the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements.
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There are some young almond tress, which ordinarily look as if drawn by a childish hand. Now, as the wind sets their weak branches gibbering, they seem like shamanistic scratches on the white bone of the brittle bright night.