I'm just a product of grace that's still in the process; And I don't got to be great because my God is.
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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.
You say potato; I say potahto. . . " I say integrity; you say deceit.
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.