Read Books. They Are Good For Us.

So Writing Is Not Just Writing. It Is Also Having A Relationship With Other Writers. And Don't Be Jealous, Especially Secretly. That's The Worst Kind. If Someone Writes Something Great, It's Just More Clarity In The World For All Of Us.

The Odd Thing Is, That I Wrote The Great Spring While I Had Cancer And It's Not About Cancer. It Was After I Was Done With Cancer That I Wrote A Book About It.

We Have To Accept Ourselves In Order To Write. Now None Of Us Does That Fully: Few Of Us Do It Even Halfway. Don’t Wait For One Hundred Percent Acceptance Of Yourself Before You Write, Or Even Eight Percent Acceptance. Just Write. The Process Of Writing Is An Activity That Teaches Us About Acceptance.

The Aim Is To Burn Through To First Thoughts, To The Place Where Energy Is Unobstructed By Social Politeness Or The Internal Censor, To The Place Where You Are Writing What You Mind Actually Sees And Feels, Not What It Thinks It Should See Or Feel.

I Read Eve Ensler And Thought It Was Fabulous. Not Only That, But It Was Really The Only Thing I Could Relate To About Cancer.