To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?