“If you must slander someone, don't speak it - but write it - write it in the sand, near the water's edge!”
“I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.”
“You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.”
“Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.”
“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.”
“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”