The point of all stories is how we are the same. That’s where we meet.
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I felt as if I was peering through a one-way glass at another world, the one everyone shared.
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My focus must stay on my inner light of curiosity and not drift into notions of getting something right.
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All the battles I’ve fought with others have been a consequence of misunderstanding.
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The storyteller must look past what is, training their storytelling eye on what will be.
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My mind, after all, looks like that TV sometimes.
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Spectacular failure is so much more memorable than success.
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There is nothing like dying of thirst to appreciate a simple glass of water.
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Stories and essays and, for that matter, conversation itself, are not about winning.
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People can be very convincing when they’re telling you how lousy they actually are.
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A good story is always in service to the one who’s telling it and the one who’s hearing it.
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Complaints are many a story’s beginning, but never its end.
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The tension of conflict has no real value unless it’s eventually followed by the release of resolution.
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It is the moment I breathe for the first time that I appreciate what I otherwise do every moment of every day.
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I know firsthand how easy it is to lose sight of why we’re actually here.
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A story needs an author and an audience, and each of us were both that evening.
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The action of putting words on the page is merely the very last step in a process that takes place almost entirely within the formless interior of the imagination.
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When we say we don’t know if our story is any good, we’re being dishonest.
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To write, I must go somewhere devoid of anyone’s opinion except my own.
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What everyone wants is to be interested and excited and satisfied with what they read or see or eat.
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