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Freedom
I remembered my own childhood, the hours spent outside in trees, playing in the shade of my grandmother’s huge, gnarled Crape Myrtle, reading on the porch swing,
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Generosity
One effect of the loss of a spiritual True North, Momaday said, was that people would lose traditional cultural principles such as those the Plains Indians lived by: bravery, fortitude, generosity, and virtue.
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Anniversary
Choosing to face the blank page and write my 1500-2000 words a day became an act of obedience, and ultimately of love for the person I struggled to love more than any other, which was me.
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The Art of Writing | 4
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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The Writer’s Mandala | 3
If you are too much enmeshed in the community and don’t have enough of the silent, sustained solitude, then you lose the essential aspect of being a writer.
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The Writer’s Mandala | 2
Learn everything you have to know to say something well. You can’t fake it. The only people you’ll be able to fool are the people who don’t know anything, people who are uneducated.
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The Art of Writing | 1
If you have a sense of commitment and mission, you have something to say because you are a bearer of a message. Then no matter what else is happening in your life, you must set aside several hours a day to become a vessel, a communicator of that message.
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Why We Read
Writers enlarge us by giving us lives that are bigger than they would be otherwise.
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Quoting Annie Dillard
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. — Annie Dillard
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Magical Memory
Dowling’s gift for art was overlooked by his parents and teachers alike. When he brought his gift into the classroom, it was not merely ignored, but also ridiculed. This is the fate of so many artistic, creative, and brilliant children.
