All The Lessons You Need

Sometimes In Life, Things Happen That Will Knock You Back. Hell, You May Get Beaten To Your Knees But You Must Never Allow This World To Knock You Down! Conjure Up All The Strength You Have And Drive Through Whatever It Is Keeping You On Your Knees. Build Up The Strength And Your Knees May Never Buckle Again!

In America, The Stories We Tell Ourselves And We Tell Each Other In Fiction Have To Do With Individualism. Every Person Here Is The Center Of His Or Her Own Story. And Our Job As People And As Characters Is To Find Our Own Motivations And Desires, To Overcome Conflicts And Obstacles Toward Defining Ourselves So That We Grow And Change.

Writing Is Hard Work, And If Anything's True About The Process, It's That Fact That A Good Story Is Hard To Find And Even Trickier To Get On Paper. What's Less Romantic Than Staring Alone At A Blank Screen? And Edgy? I've Changed The Cat Little Because I Didn't Know What My Characters Were Going To Say Next.

Orphans Are The Only Ones Who Get To Choose Their Fathers, And They Love Them Twice As Much.

I'd Known That The Visit Would Be Highly Scripted And That Genuine Interactions With Citizens Wouldn't Be Possible, Since It's Illegal For Them To Speak With Foreigners. Still, I'd Thought I'd Had A Unique Look At North Korea, Only To Discover I Was Wrong.