You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

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

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