We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by. - Julia Cameron

"If we eliminate the word "writer", if we just go back to writing as an act of listening and naming what we hear, some of the rules dissappear. There is an organic shape, a form-coming-into-form that is inherent in the thing we are observing, listening to, and trying to put on the page. It has rules of its own that it will reveal to us if we listen with attention. Shape does not need to be imposed. Shape is a part of what we are listening to. When we just let ourselves write, we get it "right"."

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.