Patience

“In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!”

Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet

You Belong Everywhere

I had them turn on the blue lights for a special reason.

Do you know why?

Do YOU know why?

No?

Let me tell you.

Because I'm sad.

I'm sad inside.

But I feel good on the outside.

And I've written a poem about it.

Tribute to The Ultimate Warrior

Charlie

You're just a tourist with a typewriter, Barton. I LIVE here. Don't you understand that?

You Have To Write

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS

Discover

 What's your advice to new writers?

"Read. Write. Read. Write. If you are moved by someone else's work, study it to discover how they made the magic."
 -Jenny Wingfield

17-year-old Girls

“You’ve got to be honest for it to lock with me, it’s got to have real things – a night I’ve had or an experience you look back on and go, ‘I’m glad I put this somewhere.’”