Unlike my heart, my creativity requires my attention to function properly.
Read MoreI spent many years more or less overlooking my lived experiences when dreaming my future, as if I would be a different person once this or that happened.
Read MorePessimism is entirely about the future. It is never about the present
Read MoreI knew that there was something with which I was used to being in constant communication that was harder to hear while in the company of other people.
Read MoreThe same guidance system that helps me find the right word and the right story and the right life keeps speaking to me in whatever language I’m willing to hear.
Read MoreAs soon as I start thinking I have to be someone other than who I am to do anything, I’m lost.
Read MoreYour life is a blank page, a story being written every morning.
Read MoreNo one can give me my breath nor take it away. It remains mine to hold or release.
Read More“Isn’t it great?” he cried. “We’re free!”
Read MoreThe feeling is alive and active in the body of the creator, and in this way is the first actual expression of the story.
Read MoreI maintain a kind of loyalty towards those things I have enjoyed doing, like friends whose company I have loved.
Read MoreThere is no more creative, useful thought to think than, “I like that and I would like more of it.”
Read MoreWhether I am writing it, selling it, or promoting it, my job is always to articulate my story’s value.
Read MoreThe market doesn’t know what it wants, except that it wants to want something.
Read MoreThe threat of forever is the inner critic’s weapon of choice.
Read MoreWhen I look at the blank page, I do not see my story glass as completely empty or even half-empty.
Read MoreIf something did not exist in my life, if I could not hold it in my hand, look at it, drive it, live in it, then it seemed only realistic that I never would.
Read MoreTo write, I have to forget about everything but my imagination.
Read MoreTo create anything, I simply cannot spend my time thinking about what I don’t have and what I don’t like.
Read MoreThe writing only starts once I stop beating myself up and doubting and worrying and despairing.
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