“And what I encourage people to do is be you and aim high. You never know what will happen. But do what you love. Even if you work a day job and you’re busting your ass and you’re making ends meet, at the end of the day, go do what you love. Because...
“Very few people make it to the end, very few people get published, but even fewer people who want to write a story actually finish. And there’s a lot of regret there. So my, my clarion call to anybody who even brings that up to me is if you start it, do...
“This is a really rough business. You’ll get rejections if you stop because you got a rejection or somebody else says, don’t do this. Most agents, if they don’t want your work, they’ll say something like, uh, it doesn’t meet my...
“I’ll tell you one of the things I used to do in my, uh, English, uh, literature classes when I was teaching for the University of Maryland. I take them out and, um, for 10 minutes, all I just said, all I want you to do when I go outside is look up in the...
“Someone once gave me this advice and they said, if you’re a writer, you write. Now what that means is that you don’t write because you have this ideal that you’re going to write the great American novel. Uh, just go ahead and write because you...
