Where Do Ideas Come From? Ideas Come

...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.

What Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners… Is That All Of Us Who Do Creative Work, We Get Into It Because We Have Good Taste. But There Is This Gap. For The First Couple Years You Make Stuff, And It’s Just Not That Good. It’s Trying To Be Good, It Has Potential, But It’s Not… Your Taste Is Why Your Work Disappoints You… We Know Our Work Doesn’t Have This Special Thing That We Want It To Have. We All Go Through This… It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That You Will Close That Gap, And Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions.

One Reason I Do The Live Shows - And The Monthly Speeches At Public Radio Stations - Is To Remind Myself That People Hear The Show, That It Has An Audience, That It Exists In The World. It's So Easy To Forget That.

It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That... Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions. And I Took Longer To Figure Out How To Do This Than Anyone I've Ever Met. It's Gonna Take Awhile. It's Normal To Take Awhile. You've Just Gotta Fight Your Way Through.

I'm Going To Go With Chihuahua, Just Because I Can't Think Of Anything More Frightening Than A Giant Chihuahua.