The most crippling part of my personality is that as much as I want to know something, I can’t bear admitting I’m ignorant. It’s as if I think I should have been born knowing and understanding all. As if when I say out loud, what are you talking about? the world will point and jeer.
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.
If you write a story based on a real person, you’re trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.