Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.
If you love the work, it will love you back.
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.
Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else.
As writers we need to crack open language.