Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

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

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.