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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

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Peter Straub

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me. . . the most dreadful thing.

Done, Happened, Worst
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An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

Average, Begins, Lunch, Pms, Working

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

Jumping, Ordinary World, Pigs, Split, Wearing

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.

Despair, Parts, Sadness, Self, Shell, Skills

I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.

Imagination, Let, Magic, Question, Wish, Work Out

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. . . . A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.

Deal, Dramatic, Effect, Emotional, Eye, Goal
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