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You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It’s all there and you just have to find it.
As a boy, he thought old drugstores had a slightly furtive air. When you went in, you always thought about buying rubbers whether you needed any or not. There were things on the shelves you shouldn’t look at too long.
He was possessed with a vision of a better life on the other side of the money. Buried under all the dirt he had ever done, his old hopes still faced east. Now they stirred and strained to rise.
Dear Will. A brief note of congratulations for the job you did on Mr. Lounds. I admired it enormously. What a cunning boy you are!

