The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. – David Brinkley
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. – Joan Didion