The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
Zen is the vehicle of reality.
How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.