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Narrative 10

There’s something to stepping right out of your dreams and onto the page.

Narrative 10

What’s the most useful criticism you’ve received? “Keep writing.”

Narrative 10

I know now not to measure my insides against others’ outsides.

Narrative 10

Favorite character? What a question. It’s like choosing a favorite child.

Narrative 10

Love is the difference between a full life and an empty one.

Narrative 10

Every really good book on first reading is life changing.

Neighborly Favors

I promised to return, but secretly I dreamed of staying in America.

New Grub Street

He betook himself to the metropolis to become a literary man, of course.

Nick Will Be Successful Influential & Will Marry the Pretty Girl and He Didn’t Even Go to Yale

The graffiti suggests the most essential story of New Haven.

Night Glow

Dad was blind until six months ago, when he bumped his head in the fire.

Night Moves

Even then (Colin remembers now), it felt like the end of something.

Night Watch, 500 BCE

He had seduced them with his sincerity for truth-seeking.

Nighthawk: Recollections of a Lost Time

Insomnia! There is a sickly romance to the affliction—initially.

Nina Simone Explains Delusions to John Roberts

We called for the dead dog because toddlers do not understand death.

No More Horses

These old guitar players were the last pure thing this country produced.

Not for the Sabbath

When an old man marries a young piece of flesh, she is the ruler.

Notes from My Apprenticeship

Here is the fat guy whose Chihuahua gnawed through his stomach.

Notes on Time

Time, now more than ever, is of the essence. Time is all there is.

Notes on Writing a Novel

The ideal way of presenting character is to invite perception.

Nothing More

This is all there is. Nothing else. No heaven and no hell, okay?

Nothing of Consequence

The women wanted signs of regret, but she was straight shouldered.

Oceanside

You could take your pick from an array of rebellions to consider.

Ode to Left-Handedness and Other Poems

Fearing for them, I clustered them together, then cut them off.

Odessa, Mon Amour

He wrote and rewrote endlessly, and rose at night to reread pages.

Of Companions and Flatterers

There is hardly a rich man in the world who has not such a friend.

Of God and His Enemies

Logic is such an elegant weapon; and religion, such an easy target.

Of the Meaning of Progress

The longing to know hovered like a star above this child-woman.

Of the Novel

I do not intend in these pages to put in a plea for this little novel.

Oh Father, Your Fear

Is it that he is too tired or too afraid to blink into the oil of his own machine?

Oh You Little Faith

What if it does choose, the egg, I mean, her favorite spermatozoon.