After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. You don't want to slow up your hand even more with a slow pen. A ballpoint, a pencil, a felt tip, for sure, are slow. Go to a stationery store and see what feels good to you. Try out different kinds. Don't get too fancy and expensive. I mostly use a cheap Sheaffer fountain pen, about $1.95.... You want to be able to feel the connection and texture of the pen on paper.

We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.

Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

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.

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