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

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

Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

A working artist is a playing artist.