Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.com)

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.

God loves you so much that he is willing to hold something from you for the perfect time!

I might be a dork, but I don't want to be a jerk.