“...the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ...”

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”

“Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page.”

“I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may.”

“Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The growing size of that blank and ever-darkening past frightened me; it loomed beside me like a hole in the air and battened on scraps of my life I failed to claim. If one day I forgot to notice my life, and be damned grateful for it, the blank cave would suck me up entire.”

“Staring at the blank page before youopen up the dirty windowlet the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.Today is where your book begins,the rest is still unwritten....”