all you've got to give

The storyteller is a puppetmaster

Write What You Need to Write

"Write what you want to write.  Write what you need to write.  Write what engages you, what interests you, what gets your blood pumping and your jaw tight.  Because what else are you going to do?  Platy it safe?  Write what everybody else is writing just because everybody else is writing it?  What's the point?  Why bring nothing new to the table?  Why fail to bring yourself and your passions to the page?"

You need something to communicate

"Writing is merely a conveyance for story—without story, without a message, writing is just a hollow bucket.  You need something to communicate, and story is that thing."

write with total fucking honesty

We Have a Responsibility

"We know in our deep and private places that we have a responsibility to take on things that draw our attention and to turn them into these mysterious objects—poems and stories—that illuminate, that offer an objection to the status quo, that warn and empower."