Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.
Darkness, true darkness, is something more than lack of light.
I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.
When we were together, she turned me completely inside out.
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?
I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.
The thing to keep in mind is that the answer to the question I often get - Are leaders born or made? - is an emphatic yes! All leaders are born, and all are made, through devoted practice of reflecting on experience to learn what's worked and what hasn't, good coaching and accountability pressure to grow, good luck, and, of course, some talent.
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.