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

At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.

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

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.