To write a story I love to write, or work a job I love to work, or be with a person I love, is to find the current of my passion and follow it where it is already running.
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For 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.
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The 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.
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Once you learn the kind of stories you like to tell, and once you start figuring out how to tell them, you have to keep finding why you love to tell them.
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Fortunately writing is sneaky. The goal is always to sort of hypnotize myself so that I can believe completely in something that no one else can see or touch or smell, believe in it more than all the things I can see and touch and smell. T
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In this way, writing began teaching me how to love other people. I love them best by getting out their heads and sinking into my own heart, which, it just so happens, is where I find what I most want to write about
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It is always easier to feel love when you’re with someone, or doing something, or appreciating something, but to really understand love you have to be alone and doing nothing. That’s why the blank page continues to teach me so much about what it means to be human.
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