I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.

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

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

Anything we fully do is an alone journey.