It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.
We become what we pay attention to.
When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.
Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.