Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

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

Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.

Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. To do writing practice means to deal ultimately with your whole life.

I am free to write the worst junk in the world.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

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.