Chris Pavone
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career — neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.
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In this life, we have to make many choices...If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body...What should exist? To me, that's the most...Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels...Understanding is a two-way street...You've got a lot of very, very smart people...
