When You Are Not Writing, You Are

Once You Have Learned To Trust Your Own Voice And Allowed That Creative Force Inside You To Come Out, You Can Direct It To Write Short Stories, Novels, And Poetry, Do Revisions, And So On. You Have The Basic Tool To Fulfill Your Writing Dreams. But Beware. This Type Of Writing Will Uncover Other Dreams You Have, Too-going To Tibet, Being The First Woman President Of The United States, Building A Solar Studio In New Mexico-and They Will Be In Black And White. It Will Be Harder To Avoid Them.

I Write Because I Am Alone And Move Through The World Alone. No One Will Know What Has Passed Through Me... I Write Because There Are Stories That People Have Forgotten To Tell, Because I Am A Woman Trying To Stand Up In My Life... I Write Out Of Hurt And How To Make Hurt Okay; How To Make Myself Strong And Come Home, And It May Be The Only Real Home I'll Ever Have.

Know That You Will Eventually Have To Leave Everything Behind; The Writing Will Demand It Of You.

I Feel Very Rich When I Have Time To Write And Very Poor When I Get A Regular Paycheck And No Time At My Real Work.

Failure Is What We're All Running From, We're Always Running Toward Success With Failure At Our Back.