"And what I thought was that many of the things that feel really good to me, that make me happy, that give me the sense that I am in the right place doing the right thing, are incredibly hard to start doing."

"The trick is learning how to follow their own best instinct."

"The answer I so often hear to this problem is discipline. “Discipline” is the chorus of a one-beat, assembly-line pop song. It’s bad, but it’s played so often it gets into your head anyway."

"Discipline is what’s supposed to make the difference between doing the sustaining thing and succumbing to Resistance."

"The problem is that the person we’re actually rebelling against is ourselves."

"I’ve done a small amount of writing instruction too, and I’ve noticed it takes a while to open up to the idea of play. Adults feel they ought to be working, being productive."

"But the more they relax into play, the livelier, more moving, and more original their prose gets. They’re not fighting themselves anymore. They’re just being themselves."