By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called ’the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend’s offer to help you with what you are doing.
My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart’s happiest guide.
We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.
There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.
Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, ‘I’m not old enough. I’m not distinguished enough.’ But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.
I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn’t know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don’t have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.
No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
Love is the greatest medicine. I ask to be healing medicine for others. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and to love others as they wish to be loved. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and open to my being loved as I wish to be loved.
Because if you’re trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.
If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.
In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.
You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.
The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.
We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.