When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

Art is born in attention.

You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach.

We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.

The reward for attention is always healing.