The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.