No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or to… - Julia Cameron

Non illegitimi te carborundum, the graffiti in prisoner-of-war camps is said to have run. The rough translation, very important for artists, is “Don’t let the bastards get you down.” Artists who take this to heart survive and often prevail. The key here is action. Pain that is not used profitably quickly solidifies into a leaden heart, which makes any action difficult.

We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.