You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.