I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.