Not Enough Gets Said About The Importance

I Don't Like That Whole "art Should Challenge You" Thing. Because I Don't Feel Like Art Actually Does Challenge You. I Was A Semiotics Major At Brown, And There's This Idea That Stories Are Better, Books Are Better, And Movies Are Better If They Cocked You Off Your Axis And You Were Completely Disoriented And You'd Really Have To Rethink Everything.

The Most Important Possible Thing You Can Do Is Do A Lot Of Work.

I Wish Somebody Had Given Me The News That Ideas Don't Just Fall On Your Head Like Fairy Dust. You Have To Treat That Like A Job. You Have To Spend Hours Each Day, Where You're Just Like, 'this Is The Part Of The Day When I'm Looking For An Idea.'

You'd Think That Radio Was Around Long Enough That Someone Would Have Coined A Word For Staring Into Space.

...these Stories Are A Kind Of Beacon. By Making Stories Full Of Empathy And Amusement And The Sheer Pleasure Of Discovering The World, These Writers Reassert The Fact That We Live In A World Where Joy And Empathy And Pleasure Are All Around Us, There For The Noticing.