Read books. They are good for us.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

Read books. They are good for us.

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.

Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency.

Stress is a confused state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath.

Be tough in the way a blade of grass is rooted willing to lean and at peace with what is around it.

Wait until you are hungry to say something until there is an aching in you to speak.

The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

A writer must say yes to life.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.