I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.