
My wife once read a few stories I had written and asked why I never tried to publish them or work on my writing. And I think the reason I gave her is the same reason a lot of us don’t do things we should. We get discouraged. I never worked on my writing because when I wrote a paragraph, I’d return to it and realize that my writing was never going to be on par with Hemingway or Tolstoy, so I stopped trying.