David Rosenthal

Right.

That's true.

That's true.

You're actually not giving him everything.

Yeah, true.

That's an interesting observation.

Language is a lossy compression of thought.

Trying to think of the reverse is also true for some people.

That insight is at the bottom of my creative process.

I assume when I write a book that what goes into people is something different than came out of me, that they are going to take it and reassemble it in a different way.

And so I have to construct it in a way that there's a hole for the reader to go in and just do what they need to do with it.

The more I just let the story tell itself, the less I tried to

influenced the way he thought about the story, the more the story landed.

And then, of course, when you do that, you're giving people lots of options in how they see the story, how they understand the story.

It's the risk you take.

But it's what makes it alive.

And it's why you get this huge range of response to a given story.

But you've got to actually just accept that when you're saying something,

The other person gets to understand it however they want to understand it.

And if you don't do that, what you get is something that's dead the next day.