That's the best part. The how..

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything..

We want to mentally be young, even if physically we're not..

It’s history. It’s poetry..

Don't count your boobies until they are hatched..

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before..

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia..

I wanted them to love the story so they would love me..

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success..

I froze in time! And I thought, "My God... I'm free!".

What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in a….

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things..

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration..

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust..

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage..

Who does it hurt? That's who the story is about..

Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. T….

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again..

It's time to find out what the truth really is that's out there..

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen..

I like to have a much greater base and know a lot more about my character before I begin to fill the person. So a lot of it really entails sit-downs ….