Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.