5 Quotes by William Browning Spencer

She loved Harry and so, when he disappeared, when he withdrew into vagueness and alcohol, she had despised him passionately.

The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

He had to take sleep by surprise. Preparing for bed simply alerted insomnia, brought all the busy thoughts, the renegade remorses and guilts and recriminations.

But if you don’t have the name of a thing, it is still the thing.