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

We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.

In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

Let me tell you something about hypochondria: It's a pernicious, undermining little demon. It won't kill you, but it will sap the color from your life so that in the loveliest moments, the moments of grace, you are hit with that whisper in your ear that takes it all away. I'm sick, I'm dying - I just don't know it yet.

I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.

There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.

I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I was looking for, and continue to, is a way to have this exist within a regular, normal, modern life.