You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our...
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....
Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
This quiet place exists as we exist, here on the earth. It just is. That is where the best writing comes from and what we must connect with in order to write well.
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the...
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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.
We live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an automobile. Separate the fender, the hood, the roof, lie them on the garage floor, walk around them. Le...
Happy? He stared her down. You can’t expect happiness. If it comes along—consider yourself lucky, but that’s not what life’s about.
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
Poems are small moments of enlightenment
Do all my original writing by hand. I have greater mobility: I can write on planes, with friends in cafés. Plus it feels more connected with my body; my hand moves with my arm and shoulder, which is c...
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...
To read and to write is to be empowered. No shackle can ultimately hold you.
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
Ninety percent of writing is about listening.
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...
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.