When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.