The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.

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.

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.