Refuse to write your life and you have no life.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines.

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.

Refuse to write your life and you have no life.