Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

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

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it