Everything was about life, really. Even eulogies were about life.
Read MoreReaders and writers often segregate themselves through the natural selection of preference.
Read MoreI’ve come to see my page not so much as blank but mirror-like.
Read MoreIt was as if the sales report were a terminal diagnosis from my doctor.
Read MoreThere is not one thing I have ever done that I have thoroughly enjoyed every single time I’ve done it.
Read MoreThe best I can offer is to tell a better story, one where all fear and pain is a consequence of misunderstanding.
Read MoreTo write, I must accept that I am the drill sergeant, dreaming new challenges for myself each morning.
Read MoreAnd yet even in a place that seemed barren to me, there grew that flower calling for my attention.
Read MoreI know big houses and trips to Spain are nice – until, that is, they aren’t.
Read MoreShe didn’t need to know who I was to know that her son wasn’t broken.
Read MoreThe imagination, freed for just a moment from the ego’s tyranny, can instantly perceive the friendly world we actually inhabit.
Read MoreI could still feel myself pinning so much on what these strangers thought of my pitch.
Read MoreI don’t need more than myself to create anything or to know anything.
Read MoreThe sentences that stay are in service to your story. The ones that are rejected are not.
Read MoreI’m a storyteller, which means I dream of troubles and see how they will resolve themselves.
Read MoreThe experience of writing about their troubles teaches the author how to write about the solution.
Read MoreIf I were honest, I was often bored on those empty summer days.
Read MoreLife itself, the thing I’m writing about, is always right, is always a perfect, finished story.
Read MoreIf you have ever published anything anywhere there is a good chance your work has influenced someone in some way.
Read MoreThe more unwanted the event, the more necessary is my artistic attention to it.
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