It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and lay it down. I can pare it, shape it, and polish it later...My job is to take down the dribs and drabs - to free-associate, if you will, knowing that the associations have their own plans for where we're going with all this.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.