This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.
if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.