All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

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.

This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want to run and you resist every step of the three miles, but you do it anyway. You practice whether you want to or not. You don't wait around for inspiration and a deep desire to run ... That's how writing is too ... One of the main aims in writing practice is to learn to trust your own mind and body; to grow patient and nonaggressive.

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

Writing is the act of discovery.