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

keep your hand moving

Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.