I love language, but a river exists whether we have a word for it or not.
Read MoreWhen you write, you’re growing a garden you love within yourself.
Read MoreI felt as if I was peering through a one-way glass at another world, the one everyone shared.
Read MoreCriticism and shame have no place in the Inner Artist’s work.
Read MoreMy focus must stay on my inner light of curiosity and not drift into notions of getting something right.
Read MoreAll the battles I’ve fought with others have been a consequence of misunderstanding.
Read MoreAll that stands between the artist and their inherent desire to write that story is resistance.
Read MoreI often feared the ugliness of my mistakes.
Read MoreThe storyteller must look past what is, training their storytelling eye on what will be.
Read MoreMy mind, after all, looks like that TV sometimes.
Read MoreSpectacular failure is so much more memorable than success.
Read MoreEvery time I sit down to write, I’m not quite the same person I was the day before.
Read MoreTo write my best and live my best I must be free.
Read MoreThere is nothing like dying of thirst to appreciate a simple glass of water.
Read MoreI felt a bit like those snowballs sometimes, rapidly growing but also accidentally collecting a lot of junk in my mind along the way.
Read MoreIf you write without wanting to be read, speak without wanting to be heard, you’re a creature in conflict with yourself.
Read MoreI have to continually remind myself that not knowing, that axiomatic prerequisite for discovery, is not a cause for insecurity.
Read MoreI will never get up an hour earlier to ask, “Why bother?”
Read MoreNone of us ever want to stand as an example of how not to write, want to commit a crime for which there is no forgiveness.
Read MoreStories and essays and, for that matter, conversation itself, are not about winning.
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