The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

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

The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

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.