If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

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

If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.

A writer must say yes to life.