Monday, December 20, 2004

How I rewarded myself for finishing my Christmas shopping

Are you prepared to stop calling yourself a writer if you put down a Patrick O'Brian novel because all those seafaring details grate on your nerves and you dislike having to look things up?

--Kaye Gibbons, Oxford American, Winter 2005

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