Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

You're the nicest boy ever,", I told him, feeling undeserving and terrible. "You didn't have to get me anything. I like thinking about you thinking about me when I'm not around.

The world needs more love at first sight.

names are a way to keep people in your mind

Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.