When a story meets a reader I can’t be there to shepherd this new relationship through to a happy conclusion.
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Your readers will return mostly for your perspective. It may be that you and they share an interest like baseball or poetry or pop culture, and it is this shared interest that first brings you together – but it is your perspective on those subjects that brings them back.
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There are times as a writer where you wish you could tell a story in a such a way that the reader, any reader, would have no choice in whether they go for your ride.
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When the word I want but don’t yet know isn’t coming it means I’m not seeing what I’m trying to write accurately.
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As storyteller, I mustn’t become seduced by problems. Just because they are the fuel for my stories, and just because they are easier to see, does not mean they are the reason I am telling stories.
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The thing about sentences is that they are almost always connected to other sentences, growing out of and into what came before and what will come after. It is the rare sentence that can stand entirely alone, as satisfying as a poem.
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It was exhausting trying to assess oneself through the lens of other people.
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I remain a fan of and believer in humanity. Though I am thoroughly schooled in our resume of cruelty, violence, and greed, I feel only good from the people I meet.
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Comparison often comes disguised as something practical like how another person promoted him or herself or built their platform. It’s a rouse.
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The difference between what you believed once and what you know now is comedy.
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If given a choice between a trip to Grand Central Station or a great conversation in my hotel lobby, I’ll take the conversation every time.
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We cannot share what we do not already have, and once given we are always left with more of what we offered another.
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I don’t know how long it’s going to take me to quit thinking I need to predict the future.
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What a strange and helpful little voice. No one else could hear it, nor could they see its source, yet it was often all that sustained me when all I could perceive was a wasteland of rejection.
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Certainty is not the same as knowing the way. My page is just as blank and the path is just as obscured now as it was when I was a younger writer.
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It is important as a writer to remember that out there in the reading wilderness are strangers looking for what you have written.
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I try write about sex as if the reader has never had sex, or going for a walk as if the reader has never gone for a walk.
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There is very little as intimate as the relationship between writer and reader. The reader allows the writer into their very mind, and once together they head off on a journey unique to that reading.
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There is nothing like the freedom of discovering you are safe to say what you most want to say. How friendly the world becomes in that holy instant.
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Every single wave had its own touch of that, a drive that could kill or carry you. That was what made them worth riding, though you couldn’t think about dying if you wanted to go back out.
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