Explore the rugged edge of thought . Like grating a carrot, give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness.
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
Go ahead; take Kant's PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSIC and get it to show what he is telling. We would all be a lot happier.
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...
Understanding engenders care.
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
THE BASIC UNIT of writing practice is the timed exercise.
Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
The back of every word we write is no word. Only because no word exists is there space enough to write some word. So when we write about our feelings and perceptions, it is writing practice when we al...
Writing is the act of discovery.
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
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.
Writing is 100% listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write, it pours out of you. if you can capture that reality around you, your writing needs nothi...
We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us.
There is no security no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago we will do it again. Actually every time we begin we wonder how we ever did it before.
If every time you sat down, you expected something great, writing would always be a great disappointment. Plus that expectation would also keep you from writing.
Tibetan Buddhists say that a person should never get rid of their negative energy, that negative energy transformed is the energy of enlightenment, and that the only difference between neurosis and wi...
If you never sit still, it does not even hint to that deeper self in you that you are interested. By practice, by showing up, we are signaling that deep motor, that hum of life, that we are ready: Hel...
This all happened fifteen years ago. A friend once told me: Trust in love and it will take you where you need to go. I want to add, Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you wher...
I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at t...
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