We believe only other people can tell us whether our stuff is any good or not.
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My response was so immediate and intense it was as if a trigger had been pulled in me.
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There are so many thoughts that wander into our heads that are absolutely incompatible with writing.
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What was fun yesterday is not always fun today.
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Writing a story takes time, time that grants me the opportunity to feel the effect of my words as I lay them out one beside the other.
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So much of writing is believing you have everything you need, that you’re perfectly equipped to tell the story you must want to tell.
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No one can know our story as we do.
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I simply can’t be wrong when I like something.
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Sometimes it’s hard to finish just because you must accept you won’t have that friend of a story to spend time with anymore.
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The storyteller reduces reality to a few manageable bits
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Writing becomes complicated when we are doing more than just finding the next satisfying sentence.
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As a writer, I establish a story’s reality at the outset as a kind of agreement with my reader.
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I simply misunderstood the true source of what we call reality.
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I knew that there was something with which I was used to being in constant communication that was harder to hear while in the company of other people.
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If 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.
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A writer discovers a story that lives unseen and untold within her.
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Grief is never the end. It can’t be.
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The first thing I must do is forget about the world around me, forget what I sometimes think I am.
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It wasn’t even the idea itself I cared about, just its arrival.
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It’s a mistake to believe that what you need to write your story exists outside of you.
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