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We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

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Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product.

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Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

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I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.

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Basic Principles:1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative forc...more

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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

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I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often ...more

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Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings,...more

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Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

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Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of cou...more

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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

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Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

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

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Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.