The ease of life is not so simple to believe.
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I felt like I’d been waiting two decades to hear exactly those words from exactly this sort of person, and as nice as it was to hear, it meant strangely little to me.
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You are an equal part of the whole, neither separate from, nor greater than, nor lesser than.
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Live in the world you already know. That world is you.
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The space between the cultivated details of every story serves as a kind of mirror.
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To write a story I love to write, or work a job I love to work, or be with a person I love, is to find the current of my passion and follow it where it is already running.
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What is it I do when I’m writing? Mostly, listening and waiting; waiting and listening.
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I have consistently taken for granted most of what I have to offer the world.
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Eventually, I, like everyone else, was going to have to learn how to let go of the shore once and for all
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I just needed to tell someone, I thought. Come clean about what happens to me when I start sniffing status and money and fame, how I want to know where I rank on all fronts.
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Sometimes the story I most want to tell feels so close to how I think and talk and see the world that it’s hard to imagine that story inhabiting anyone’s imagination but my own.
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If you want to write, if you want to make something that wasn’t there yesterday, you’ll have to accept that the future is no place to find your safety.
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Without interest, nothing happens. It’s the fuel that runs every creative engine.
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Every time I begin to find that story, every time I catch the first interesting glimpse of its tail, I grow up a little bit more.
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Therein lies the source of most disagreements: everyone’s taking a different route to the same place.
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Though I would not ask for hopelessness, I must acknowledge its value in my work.
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If I’m writing about my life, I’m really writing about life itself, the thing I’m living in, the thing I’m a part of – the whole of creation, really.
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My son explained to me one day, “Michael knows all the answers.” All, it turns, except one.
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People have said plenty of unkind things to me in my life, particularly about my work. Yet the things these people said only “hurt” when I believed them.
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Writers start stories, and readers finish them.
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