All the praise in the world is not going to heal you, and all the criticism isn’t going to hurt you.
Read MoreMost thinking is useless. It’s circular, repetitive, worrisome, or argumentative.
Read MoreI simply can’t be wrong when I like something.
Read MoreEveryone thinks they want to be loved, but they don’t.
Read MoreI keep thinking it won’t hurt so much this time.
Read MoreI was reminding myself what I truly cared about.
Read MoreThe worst agony I have experienced came when I believed I must know something it was impossible for me to know
Read MoreEvery time we make a choice from fearlessness, we feel strong and balanced.
Read MoreSometimes it’s hard to finish just because you must accept you won’t have that friend of a story to spend time with anymore.
Read MoreThe storyteller reduces reality to a few manageable bits
Read MoreArtists often do not know how what we made affects the people with whom we share it.
Read MoreWriting becomes complicated when we are doing more than just finding the next satisfying sentence.
Read MoreIf you’ve been drinking cheap wine and then you get a great bottle, you understand how cheap the cheap stuff actually tastes.
Read MoreMy imagination is limitless, but it remains incapable of predicting the future.
Read MoreI would rather be passionate about something and only feel comfortable talking about that than not be deeply interested in anything at all.
Read MoreLife is more of an ongoing work of art than is often acknowledged.
Read MoreEverything, even what we think of as success, is still just an experience.
Read MoreAs a writer, I establish a story’s reality at the outset as a kind of agreement with my reader.
Read MoreAs someone who has spent all of his life practicing all kinds of things, I’ve had to accept there is actually no perfecting anything.
Read MoreI simply misunderstood the true source of what we call reality.
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