I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst kind. If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.

The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.

It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.

Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

Writing is the act of discovery.