"Your parents used those old words, the argument went, and their parents and their parents, and so forth. They’ve collected some dust, sure, but are they not enough? Have they passed their expiration date? Think you got something to add?"Read More
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"Don't sit down to be a writer, sit down to show me a story..."
"More venery. More love; more closeness; more sex and romance. Bring it back, no matter what, no matter how old we are. This fervent cry of ours has been certified by Simone de Beauvoir and Alice Munro and Laurence Olivier and any number of remarried or recoupled ancient classmates of ours. Laurence Olivier? I’m thinking of what he says somewhere in an interview: 'Inside, we’re all seventeen, with red lips.'"Read More
"A movie-thon, by its nature, is a way to view a fair cross-section of a particular genre, director, or medium. And watching two films about zombies, on a lark, does not a movie marathon make..."Read More