I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.
Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.
Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.
The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.
I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.
This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone. . . you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.
Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.
Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.