Writing Down the Bones

“Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.”

"You're never free unless you are doing your art."

"We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us."

Own anything you want in your writing and then let it go.

“Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin.”

“Anything you do fully is an alone journey.”

“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.”

“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”

"We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips so there can be no more noes in the world, noes that invalidate life and stop these details from continuing.”

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important."

"I understand why a lot of writers drink heavily or shoot themselves. When you write, you tap the core of your wildness, you have to be prepared to let that live inside you and not destroy it."

As writers we are always seeking support. First we should notice that we are already supported every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support. There is the sunlight coming though the window and the silence of the morning. Begin from these.