I maintain a kind of loyalty towards those things I have enjoyed doing, like friends whose company I have loved.
Read MoreThere is no more creative, useful thought to think than, “I like that and I would like more of it.”
Read MoreWhether I am writing it, selling it, or promoting it, my job is always to articulate my story’s value.
Read MoreThe market doesn’t know what it wants, except that it wants to want something.
Read MoreThe threat of forever is the inner critic’s weapon of choice.
Read MoreWhen I look at the blank page, I do not see my story glass as completely empty or even half-empty.
Read MoreIf something did not exist in my life, if I could not hold it in my hand, look at it, drive it, live in it, then it seemed only realistic that I never would.
Read MoreTo write, I have to forget about everything but my imagination.
Read MoreTo create anything, I simply cannot spend my time thinking about what I don’t have and what I don’t like.
Read MoreThe writing only starts once I stop beating myself up and doubting and worrying and despairing.
Read MoreIt’s not the people in the crowd who laugh at your jokes that help you relax, it’s the ones who don’t.
Read MoreI saw the arts as a refuge from the endless game of which life sometimes seemed made.
Read MoreA writer discovers a story that lives unseen and untold within her.
Read MoreI have no clue where ideas really come from. All I know is what I must do in order for those ideas to arrive.
Read MoreGrief is never the end. It can’t be.
Read MoreThe first thing I must do is forget about the world around me, forget what I sometimes think I am.
Read MoreIt wasn’t even the idea itself I cared about, just its arrival.
Read MoreIt’s a mistake to believe that what you need to write your story exists outside of you.
Read MoreI will tend to fall back on things I’ve known and trusted in the past to find what I’m looking for.
Read MoreEvery story ever told grows from the same fertile thought: Life matters.
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