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.
Read MoreWriters start stories, and readers finish them.
Read MoreIn my desperation to feel better, I forgot that all momentum begins in stillness.
Read MoreAll my stories end the same, you see: I’m fine. I have no other ending.
Read MoreYou have to believe more in what you want than what you don’t, believe more in love than fear.
Read MoreThat which compelled your search, your unique interest and curiosity, remains your truest and only compass.
Read MoreI don’t know how to change the world, but I do know how to change my mind.
Read MoreWe can give our characters a mansion as easily as we can give them a shoebox.
Read MoreMy past is most useful to me now as source material, all of which has to be written about in the present for the present.
Read MoreFor a time my heart had seemed like a fickle lover, abandoning me over the smallest misstep, stranding me in a world of right and wrong answers.
Read MoreConnection comes before all meaningful action; never the other way around.
Read MoreThe point of all stories is how we are the same. That’s where we meet.
Read MoreCopying, like clichés, is just a way to get started when I don’t know where to begin.
Read MoreI have never once described the world I live in, only what I think of it, what I want from it, what I believe about it.
Read MoreEveryone’s innocent, but everyone also believes something that isn’t true.
Read MoreThe budding artist in me secretly believed the easiest way to relate to someone was to be adored and admired.
Read MoreWhere I actually am when I write is with me always everywhere.
Read MoreThe storyteller must look past what is, training his storytelling eye on what will be, a thing that will be the shape of what he loves.
Read MoreThe page taught what I wanted to say, and the students teach me what I want to learn.
Read MoreThere is no opposite of you. Everyone’s different, but not opposite.
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