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.

This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want to run and you resist every step of the three miles, but you do it anyway. You practice whether you want to or not. You don't wait around for inspiration and a deep desire to run ... That's how writing is too ... One of the main aims in writing practice is to learn to trust your own mind and body; to grow patient and nonaggressive.

First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts, thoughts on thought, twice and three times removed from the direct connection of the first fresh flash.

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.

Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.

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.