Albert Adame

“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“...whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, moving all the time.”
― Chang Rae Lee, Gesture Life

“I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”
― James Mitchner