The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.

If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.