“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...”
“Even if you fall flat on your face, you're still moving forward.”
“To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.”
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
“You write because the brain is an endless wilderness whose roughest terrain can only be traveled with a pencil.”
“I have a bedroom rug that I feed. It’s not very flat, and it meows when I step on it.”