If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runners get in the mood to run? Do teachers wake up with the urge to lecture? I don't know, but I doubt it. My guess is that it's the very act that is generative. The doing of the thing that makes possible the desire for it.

As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.