“Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.”

“It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”

“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you.”

“ A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.”

“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”

“A perception is not a story, and no amount of sensitivity can make a story-writer out of you if you just plain don’t have a gift for telling a story.”