Encourage the many; mentor the few.
Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.
Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.
Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation. . . Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand --the words go deep.
It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.
It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.
Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.
I have candy all the time. I live on gummy bears and peach rings. They're like dried-up peaches, only dipped in sugar. You can get 'em at gas stations. They're like 99 cents for four bags. And cashews. I love cashews.
Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.
I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.