Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.

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

When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.

By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

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

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

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.