Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.

I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.

So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

As writers we need to crack open language.