He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.
Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.
I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.
A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.
You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.
I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.
I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.
Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.
On a piece of paper, write down the thing that is stressing you, the obstacle that is in your way. Then put it in a box and just leave it there. At the end of about a week, dispose of it - throw it in the trash or bury it - some sort of ritualistic act of releasing it.
I do try to watch it. I'm not saying you have to put yourself on a diet, because I hate the word "diet. " But it's more of, like, having a balanced lifestyle makes me feel better. I try to do one to two days with no meat. I try to lessen my gluten. Those are things that I struggle with.
I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.