Author name: Dan Swanson

The secret to writing is not what you think, but what you convey when your thoughts become ink.

The hand you’re dealt has more appeal when you’re the one who gets to deal.

Don’t try to erase what you’ve written in pen; You’re only here now because you were there then. Our pasts

The life we get is the life we make. Don’t count the candles. Eat the cake.

Don’t sugarcoat the bittersweet. Both love and loss make life complete.

It’s kind of strange that flame-lit cakes Are how we mark the time it takes To each revolve around the

A.I. may tempt and fascinate, but I prefer what minds create.

My best decisions come when I consult my conscience first. When I don’t make that ask before I act, I

The line that divides between fiction and fact appears, to both sides, to be barely intact.

I try to mediate between the things I say and things I mean.