Bret Anthony Johnston Inspirational Quotes (3)

Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.

Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.