"Just as the Romans didn't build the great city of Rome in a single day, writers don't build an epic poem, a dazzling short story, a blockbuster novel, or a compelling essay in a single writing. Writers deal with words. We sweat over them, we labor with them, we put great effort into giving birth to those words that we hope will inform, entertain, perhaps inspire our readers." From Romans and Naughty Children by David Hibberd