Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my busine….

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude….

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done..

If you are never satisfied with what you write, that is a good sign. It means that your vision can see so far that it's hard to come up to it. Again ….

Be bold, free, and truthful..

Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you ….

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch..

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I ca….

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed ….

it is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. ... Pour out the dull things on paper too-you can tear them up afterwa….

If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Marri….

Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hur….

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious..

We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportan….

We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination,….

There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or pa….

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision..

everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You wi….

People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are so stern and resolute a….

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing..

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love….