“Needing external validation is a habit; a learned way of relating to your creativity; a roped boundary placed on an otherwise open field.

But habits can be broken…”

“When you’re building something that’s going to require multiple iterations—a book, a longform essay, or some other larger body of work—the best gift you can give yourself is time.”

“Making is a form of participating in the world. It’s a way of being in relationship with what’s here, and what’s possible.”

“Dear writer, you are allowed to be an artist and to have needs. Yes, even big ones.”

“You are allowed to trade your economic frameworks for environmental ones."

“Discipline: the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience. From Middle English, carrying the sense of mortification by scourging oneself.

Um, is this what we really want to be?”