To encounter a fine book
To read and to write is to be empowered. No shackle can ultimately hold you.
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.
Understanding engenders care.
Visualize a place that you really love, be there, see the details. Now write about it.
WRITE EVERYTHING YOU know about dying. Just go. Don’t think, What does she mean by that? Dive in. We die in all kinds of ways. Who died? When did they die? how? why?
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.
We learn writing by doing it. That simple. We don’t learn by going outside ourselves to authorities we think know about 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...
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.
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...
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
We're always thinking we should be writing no matter what else we might be doing. It's not fun. The life of an artist isn't easy. You're never free unless you are doing your art.
You’re more interested, finally, in living life again in your writing than in making money. Now, let’s understand—writers do like money; artists, contrary to popular belief, do like to eat. It’s only...
You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing. (p.90)
When you draw and pay attention to what is, it's a form of being present. This inspires the mind, makes it happy, and the heart wants to express more.
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...
Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of our life force, and then we go on...
Why else are first thoughts so energizing? Because they have to do with freshness and inspiration. Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God. You actually become larger than yourself, and first...
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