It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

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

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

Writing is the act of discovery.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.

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.

If you love the work, it will love you back.