The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.
How many people ask you to come share their life?
. . . You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.
Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
I usually start with something that has some energy, like a compressed character or a situation that's wound up like a spring. Then all I have to do is let it go, let its energy carry the story. And that may not turn out to be the beginning of the book.
What is real is always worth it.
I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!
I'm certainly a skeptic. I always quibble with people.
It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.