I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
Photography is the story I fail to put into words.
Maybe stories are just data with a soul.
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.
Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.
I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure.
There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.
Everything starts with a story.
The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.
You have to finish things – that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.
Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
You fail only if you stop writing.
Don’t talk about it; write.