I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself.

In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.