If we are honest, every writer, whether a life-coach or poet, must acknowledge that what they are shaping is not theirs.
Read MoreLearn in your work to see through your pain, to see beyond the veil of suffering.
Read MoreWe always have a good experience together, and the movie, good or bad, serves as the catalyst for those experiences.
Read MoreYour assignment won’t come from you, but it will come to you.
Read MoreThe ease of life is not so simple to believe.
Read MoreI felt like I’d been waiting two decades to hear exactly those words from exactly this sort of person, and as nice as it was to hear, it meant strangely little to me.
Read MoreYou are an equal part of the whole, neither separate from, nor greater than, nor lesser than.
Read MoreI didn’t know that the daily discomfort with which I lived was the difference between what wanted to be expressed and what I was expressing.
Read MoreI have never been so quiet as the moment I first heard myself clearly.
Read MoreLive in the world you already know. That world is you.
Read MoreI had come to believe that the student’s first job was to please the teacher.
Read MoreThe space between the cultivated details of every story serves as a kind of mirror.
Read MoreTo write a story I love to write, or work a job I love to work, or be with a person I love, is to find the current of my passion and follow it where it is already running.
Read MoreI have been guided through my life by feeling, and rarely by evidence or reason.
Read MoreWhat is it I do when I’m writing? Mostly, listening and waiting; waiting and listening.
Read MoreSometimes if you tune into a person you feel as if they’re a character in one of your stories.
Read MoreI have consistently taken for granted most of what I have to offer the world.
Read MoreSometimes nothing is the best thing.
Read MoreEventually, I, like everyone else, was going to have to learn how to let go of the shore once and for all
Read MoreAny monkey with a pencil could write a story, but a song was like a magic spell, and I was no magician.
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