If You're Not Failing All The Time,

It's Hard To Make Something That's Interesting. It's Really, Really Hard. It's Like A Law Of Nature, A Law Of Aerodynamics, That Anything That's Written Or Anything That's Created Wants To Be Mediocre. The Natural State Of All Writing Is Mediocrity... So What It Takes To Make Anything More Than Mediocre Is Such An Act Of Will.

For Me To Do A Story, Something Has To Happen To Someone. It's A Story In The Way You Learn What A Story Is In Third Grade, Where There Is A Person And Things Happen To Them And Then Something Big Happens And They Realize Something New.

I Am Mostly A Pretty Worried Person. In Conversations, I Am Always Worried About What To Say.

Just When Did I Get To The Point When Staying At A Hotel Wasn't Fun?

Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners - And I Really Wish Somebody Had Told This To Me - That All Of Us Who Do Creative Work... Get Into It Because We Have Good Taste.