The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the people he cannot see.
Quotes
Letting go of a story is hard. You’ve watched it grow, spent tireless hours on it. But letting go, does not mean it’s wasted. Letting go means learning, and allowing yourself to take the next step. If you hold tight to your galaxy of dreams, it’s okay to watch a star fade away.
Letting go of a story
Don’t forget–no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
Don’t forget–no one else
There are a thousand ways to tell a story, and how you tell it can be just as important as what you tell.
There are a thousand ways
Care the most about the parts of the process that you can control.