Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

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.