Lines worth keeping

Attention is a kind of love that does not need to announce itself.

A messy page is often an honest page. A tidy page is often a performance.

Reread the room before you reread the draft.

Every sentence is a small debt of attention. Pay it or strike it.

Write it hot. Send it cool. Or do not send it at all.

Stay with the boring middle. That is where the piece becomes true.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

A writer is someone who pays attention to the world.