When everyone is a contrarian, nobody is a contrarian.

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving..

You have to be willing to recognize failure..

You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented..

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too..

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently..

All history is the history of thought..

Being alone is and nothing is altogether not..

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food..

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell i….

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are..

A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child..

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally.

Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush.

What's the point of being better than someone else?.

Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But your standards kept going….

Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself..

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12..

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction..

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of….

I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an autobiography. I think of it as a literary compo….