Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
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 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...
Poems are small moments of enlightenment
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.
Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.
To read and to write is to be empowered. No shackle can ultimately hold you.
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.
It’s good to go off and write a novel, but don’t stop doing writing practice.
And what great writers actually pass on is not so much their words, but they hand on their breath at their moments of inspiration.
Anything you do fully is an alone journey.
TAKE A SUBJECT, a situation, a story that is hard for you to talk about, and write about it. Write slowly, evenly, in a measured way. Don’t skip over any part of it. Stay in there. It might take you s...
We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water; we don't drink a glass once and never ha...
Understanding engenders care.
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.
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...
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...
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
Explore the rugged edge of thought . Like grating a carrot, give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness.
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