I believe the creative process is both magical and magic.- P34
Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.- P34
The idea, sensing your openness, will start to do its work on you. It will send the universal physical and emotional signals of inspiration (the chills up the arms, the hair standing up on the back of the neck, the nervous stomach, the buzzy thoughts, that feeling of falling into love or obsession).- P36
The simplest answer, of course, is just to say no.- P37