As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This...
I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good...
No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact refere...
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so right in the middle of it we die lose a leg fall in love drop a jar of applesauce.
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
Don’t cross out. (That is editing as you write. Even if you write something you didn’t mean to write, leave it.) Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar. (Don’t even care about staying within...
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
Add to the list anytime you think of something. Then when you sit down to write, you can just grab a topic from that list and begin.
Tell about the quality of light coming in through your window. Jump in and write. Don’t worry if it is night and your curtains are closed or you would rather write about the light up north—just write....
Miyamoto Musashi’s actual burial ground was in close range. According to legend he had been buried in full samurai regalia clutching his faithful sword. The last line of the translation: He died lonel...
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
Ninety percent of writing is about listening.
We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips so there can be no more noes in the world, noes that invalidate life and stop th...
Writing is the act of discovery.
It’s good to go off and write a novel, but don’t stop doing writing practice.
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.
Writing, too, is 90 percent listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you wrote, it pours out of you. If you can capture that reality around you, your writing...
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
We must continue to open in the face of tremendous opposition. No one is encouraging us to open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.
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