Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“If they knock you down, you get up. If they knock you down again, get up. No matter how many times they knock you down, get up again.”

“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”

“Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness ... revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners....”

“There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.”