The silence was a comfortable one, as if they had known each other for a long time. This was a feeling about which Louis had read in books, but which he had never experienced until now.

“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, …”

“I responded (and with rather touching wholeheartedness) to the sweep of Tolkien…”

“As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice,…”

“So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all…”