Ninety percent of writing is about listening.
Don’t be tossed away by your monkey mind. You say you want to do something—I really want to be a writer—then that little voice comes along, but I might not make enough money as a writer. Oh, okay, the...
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...
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.
Understanding engenders care.
Anything you do fully is an alone journey.
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.
There is no failure—just a big field to wander in.
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...
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.
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
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...
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
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.
Anything we fully do is an alone journey.