Tag Archives: The Mindful Writer

Chopping Wood

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”   T. S. Eliot “Do or do not. There is no try.”   Yoda An oft-told Zen story: A student, newly arrived at a monastery asked the master, “What … Continue reading

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One Word

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”   E. L. Doctorow Here’s what Dinty W. Moore, author of The Mindful … Continue reading

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Following Along

“It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing muchto do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.”     Joan Baez “Don’t be … Continue reading

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