The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill, vision or voice, the resul….

Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things..

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you b….

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions..

Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog..