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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.

The Urge To Create A Fictional Narrative Is A Mysterious One, And When An Idea Comes, The Writer's Sense Of What A Story Wants To Be Is Only Vaguely Visible Through The Penumbra Of Inspiration.

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!

The Darkness Inside Your Head Is Something Your Imagination Fills With Stories That Have Nothing To Do With The Real Darkness Around You.

I Am A Champion Standing Over The Shadow Of My Former Self.