Writing is prayer.

Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of plants and trees and in broadcasting sperm far around us.

The richness of the world is in its wastefulness.

All writing comes by the grace of God.

It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.

Writing is a holy chore.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

Don't write about ideas ... write about convictions of the heart.

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes — in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer — you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.

Writing, truth-telling to one another, is an act of hope-making when hope is hardest found.

To write is to bring an inner voice into the outer world, to believe that our thoughts are worth entering the thinking of others, and to make real what has never existed in quite the same way before. What could be a better path to self-value than that?

Love is an act of faith.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.