Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

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

The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.

I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.