I Dont Meet Many People Who Are

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 Didnt Have Any Particular Talent For Fiction. I Took A Class In College.

Go Looking For An Idea And It'll Show Up. Begin Now.

I Dont Take Care Of My Voice At All, Which Is One Reason That I Sound As Bad As I Do.

...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.