Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.