As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

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

When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one

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.