A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.