If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)

“When we think we can do it all ourselves--fix, save, buy, or date a nice soluti…”

“You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try …”

“Some of us have a ragged faith. You cry for a long time, and then after that ar…”

“Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.”