Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

too many maniacs not enough michelangelos

There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.

As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.