We 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.
Read MoreHere's the thing about writing: you can’t do it unless you want to, unless you know it’s your choice.
Read MoreI had no plan. That I had no plan was my plan.
Read MoreThe great generosity of life is that meeting a childhood hero is not necessarily more meaningful than setting the dinner table.
Read MoreJust because I call something a business does not make it any less a creative endeavor. Ideas are ideas are ideas.
Read MoreOpportunities keep coming even as I complain and despair, as I lie awake at night, as I fret about money or recognition.
Read MoreTension is a choice, not a condition.
Read MoreMoney’s not much of a motivator when I can get for free what I imagine it can buy me.
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