I offer you a second way of approaching the moment where everything in your life just stops, this one from the actor Robert Duvall: "I exist very nicely between the words 'action' and 'cut.'" And even a third way: "It doesn't present as pain," I once heard an oncological surgeon say of cancer.

I don’t know how much longer we can keep on doing it. It doesn’t feel like a job for life.” “It might have been, for Keever.” “That’s very blunt.

If only people would read the instructions,” they say, “everything would be all right.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Written By Margaret Atwood

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