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...
I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
Failure is a hard word for people to take. Use the word kindness then instead. Let yourself be kind. And this kindness comes from an understanding of what it is to be a human being. Have compassion fo...
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...
I cannot say why, but the simple act of reading it aloud allows you to let go of it. Do not forget this. Believe me, it helps. At first it is a very scary thing to do.
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
Hear You are boring as distant white laundry flapping in the breeze. Eventually
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.
Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.
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.
Writing is the act of discovery.
That yes you commit to as reader and writer is the current that hums through all the work. Of course, you might say yes and then come up against an iceberg. No, you suddenly say definitively. And ther...
I had to get slow and dumb (not take anything for granted) and watch and see how everything connects, how you contact your thoughts and lay them down on paper.
Explore the rugged edge of thought . Like grating a carrot, give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness.
Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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