A Story To Tell

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that
Everyone and everything
has a story to tell.
I say trick but what I really mean is challenge, because it's a very hard thing to do. Our instincts as humans, after all, is to assume that most things are not interesting. We flip through the channels on the television and reject ten before we settle on one. We go to a bookstore and look at twenty novels before we pick the one we want. We filter and rank and judge. We have to. There's just so much out there. But if you want to be a writer, you have to fight that instinct everyday.

~Malcolm Gladwell, What The Dog Saw, and other adventures.