But I suppose there are messages for our time in it, maybe for all time. It's the price we pay for memory. We cannot avoid pain to ensure comfort, without stealing something from memory. Discover that stories aren't just a way for drunken, ink-stained wretches to sustain themselves. We are transported by stories to places we've never been, times we'll never know,and introduced to fascinating people.
Imagination is a beautiful, untapped resource.
Once a beginning writer understands that he'll never tell a completely new story, he'll tell us something we've never heard, and there's a big difference. And don't be afraid to reach down deep inside to find that emotion you've hidden away. It will infuse your work with a passion that your reader will sense. For two years, I was writing new words while going back and fussing with everything I'd already written. Writing is revising.