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“..feeling is the place every story starts.”
― Techniques of the Selling Writer
― Techniques of the Selling Writer
“And have you ever stood on the water's edge and tried to stop the wave? It goes on regardless of what we do, regardless of how hard we try. The ocean reminds us that we are powerless in comparison.”
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“So, I will leave you first. I will fabricate in my mind that something went wrong with you, and I'll believe it. And I'll leave. But something can't be wrong with all of them. What's the common denominator here?”
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“My anger and helplessness connected me to something, a powerful and primal energy. And the only corridor to it was through utter despondency, utter desperation.”
― The Writing Retreat
― The Writing Retreat
“There’s a heat contained within their exchange, created from the energy of desperation and loss and frustration and misguided hope, but also from the intimacy that’s built up between the two of them as everything else has peeled away from them and the thing that unites them.”
― The Night She Disappeared
― The Night She Disappeared
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