Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.