I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Everything is easy. However, the ways to make difficult things easy, sometimes it's not easy (Totok R. Biyanto)

God values Christian character, which shines in positive, outward conduct. Fashion your heart after Jesus.

One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

I don't really shout that much.

Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.

You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

We're not meant to be parents when we're 50.

I have to believe in myself. I have to be my biggest advocate or I would crumble.