If you love the work, it will love you back.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it's only for ten minutes. That's okay. To write feels better than all the excuses.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

Anything we fully do is an alone journey.