we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.

It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.