“I am broken the way most writers are, stories leaking through the cracks.”
“A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.”
“I learned a long time ago that most of my family and friends had plastic hearts. Plastic hearts are made so they cannot be broken. Cracked maybe, but never broken.”
“As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.”
“There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.”
“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help themselves! It's a compulsion.”