I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
“If you've ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.”
“All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.”