Here is a quote from this young author's first novel, released in March of 2013. He writes about being a writer. It could be self-indulgent or boring or promising, but it isn't.
This is a wonderful book.
From The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
The typing begins anew.
And for this imperfect immortality, what prices have been paid? How many livers, lungs and veins? Shredded, polluted, shot? How many children deserted, family secrets betrayed, sordid trysts laid out for strangers to see? How many wives and husbands shoved to the side? How many ovens scorched with our Hair? Gun barrels slid between our lips? Bathtubs slowly reddened by our blood and twisting rivers that drowned us? How many flawed pages burned in disgust and reduced to ashes? How many flawless moments observed from just a slight distance so that, later, we might reduce them to words? All with an unspoken prayer that these hard-won truths might outlast the brief years of our lies.
