Rick Kleffel:agony Column

"...it would not have been true to his character..."

Me Before You

"...I was writing characters who did not understand the world that they came from..."

"I kind of rejoice when I wake up from a dream..."

The Croning and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House', Amanda Coplin, 'The Orchardist', Eowyn Ivey, 'The Snow Child'

"...characters become their ideas, become their ideals..."

"...she pulled on my coat and said, 'You have to help me...'"

Opium Nation

"...it goes beyond to a kind of consolation ..."

"To me, there is only one draft."

Easy, Fast, Delicious Fresh and Left Over

"...he has to be a hero just to be there..."

A Wanted Man

"I like offering the stories of these midlands people..."

"I remember them like dream-like states."

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

"...you could spend your entire career not having a career by going back and re-working the same five chapters..."

"There was a time when I used to get up and preach..."

"How do you re-assemble a world?"