Musings

There are lots of iconic first lines in the stories we tell. The kind they make you write about in school. This isn't one of those. So h...

" Storytelling is the way that unarticulated memory becomes art, becomes artifact, becomes fact, becomes felt again, becomes free.  Emp...

“What human beings are most of all us creative, from the beginning, so that there is no one way we were or should or could be.”  - Rebecca S...

"When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out wha...

"Obviously, I think of the writer of novels and stories and plays as a moral agent… This doesn’t entail moralizing in any direct or cru...

MICE: How can a writer train himself? Y.C.: Watch what happens today. If we get into a fish see exactly what it is that everyone does. If...

Sometimes the storm, it's just coming. No matter what you do. And you can see it coming. The skies darkening.  The storm ...

It was my fault.  I shouldn't have smiled that way. But if I just don't talk about it, I can make it not be true. * * *...

"Do you mind my asking you?               I have a writing question.               It's about the parts of speech." ...

"We have equal things to teach each other. Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, ge...