Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between — Thomm Quackenbush
Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between — Thomm Quackenbush
Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between — Thomm Quackenbush
Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between — Thomm Quackenbush
Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between — Thomm Quackenbush
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Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where it is impossible to say where the blue stops and the red begins.

— Thomm Quackenbush
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