The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to write—and many of the people who do write—get lost.

“But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as m…”

“Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as…”

“Well, you can't tell it from looking at him....It makes you wonder. All the bri…”

“If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything…”