Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.

A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.