In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

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

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.