Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.
My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.
Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.
Radical views that are outside the mainstream generally (but not always) are more reliable than the dominant view because they are more regularly challenged and tested against evidence. They do not get to float freely down the mainstream; they must swim against the current. They cannot rest on the orthodox power to foreclose dissent, and they are not supported by the unanimity of bias that passes for objectivity.
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.
I've been involved in the sport since I was seven-years-old and I have learned so many things in life from it, such as making friends and discipline.