Gary Reilly

Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what__ going on around them when they are the center of attention.

My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I__ sitting in front of a typewriter.

A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.

She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That__ a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.

When I was a teenager, most fathers tended to go berserk when I asked their daughters on a date.... I discovered that all fathers go berserk when their daughters start dating. I have to assume this was because all fathers were once teenagers at some point in their lives, so they had no illusions about whether or not the boys were __p to something.