The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.
Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.
As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter.
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