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"Stories are the antibodies against the viruses of chaos."
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
"A good story should make you laugh, cry, and throw up."
"A story is not a message with a plot wrapped around it, but a plot that may contain a message."
"The most dangerous thing is to pretend that everything is fine when it's not."
"Manchmal muss man weit reisen, um zu verstehen, was zu Hause passiert."
"Jeder hat seine eigene Geschichte, aber nicht jeder kann sie erzählen."
We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination.
The stories we tell shape the selves we become.
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
He said that the way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
The truth about the world is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is. A hat trick in a medicine show. A fevered dream. A trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent. An itinerant carnival. A migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
The best stories are the ones that leave you with more questions than answers.
The people in my stories are not heroes or villains. They are just people trying to get through life.
We don't ever let go of anything, we just go on to the next thing.
It's not the writer's job to tell you how to feel. It's the writer's job to tell you something and make you feel it.