announcing itself

Find the Right Rhythm

"I think a story, when properly told, finds its own natural length.  If you try to extend it too much, it just stretches and begins to bore, and if you try to compress it too much, it just fractures.  So you just hope that you can find the right rhythm.  It's a musical thing.  You feel it out, you cut back, you switch things around—until it feels entirely natural.  A story should feel easy when of course it's far from easy." (artist)

power of a story

"We become the stories we listen to, read, and tell. That is the power of a story."

Walk Across that Line

And nothing was ever the same again

"Gogol once said that the true, unwritten last line of every story is: 'And nothing was ever the same again.'  The same could also be said for the first line of any story: 'And from that moment on, everything was about to change.'"

the ones that don't feel entirely mine

"My best stories are the ones that don't feel entirely mine.  When I read them, I'm not sure how I wrote them."