It used to be with chocolate. I would put chocolate in my studio and say, "You know, Nat, there's this chocolate you can have if you get over there." And usually if I got over there, I would start writing. Sometimes I need get out of the house and go to a café and write. Sometimes I'll write with other friends to get myself going. And sometimes I just say "Ok, Nat, enough. Go one hour. Keep your hand going." I'll do whatever it takes.

Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

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.

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.

Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.

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.