All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, but it is themselves they portray. The world of which they write is like a mirror that reflects the inside of their hearts, often more truly than they know.

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.

Intuition works best when you remember that “tuition” is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare the ground for intuition.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.