“Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.”

“Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.”

“Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.”

“A map is a song. It's different when different people sing it. . .You will make this your own song, sing it your own way.”

“I had learned by personal experience that grumblers are deaf to any voices but their own.”

“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.”