Stories are the currency of human relationships.
The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.
Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.
Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.