Break Rules. Leave The World More Interesting

Like The Newspapers Used To Say, If The Truth Isn't Big Enough, You Print The Legend.

The Search For The Word Gets No Easier But Nobody Else Is Going To Write Your Novel For You.

It's Astonishing How Much Trouble One Can Get Oneself Into, If One Works At It. And Astonishing How Much Trouble One Can Get Oneself Out Of, If One Assumes That Everything Will, Somehow Or Other, Work Out For The Best.

The Best Advice I Can Give On This Is, Once It's Done, To Put It Away Until You Can Read It With New Eyes. Finish The Short Story, Print It Out, Then Put It In A Drawer And Write Other Things. When You're Ready, Pick It Up And Read It, As If You've Never Read It Before. If There Are Things You Aren't Satisfied With As A Reader, Go In And Fix Them As A Writer: That's Revision.

Only The Phoenix Rises And Does Not Descend. And Everything Changes. And Nothing Is Truly Lost.