This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Vigorous writing is concise.