Book Quote by Daniel Handler

Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

— James Patterson

I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.

— Natalie Goldberg

I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

— Natalie Goldberg

I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.

— Liam Hemsworth

The key is to be Zen-like and be happy with what one has.

— Jackie Shroff

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

— Bodhidharma

“In order to live Zen, we must experience every moment fully while engaged in it. This concept seems so simple, yet it had a…

— Ian Tuhovsky

If you say you had a zen moment, you already didn't.

— Alec Sulkin

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

— James H. Austin

“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of energy, alive…

— Natalie Goldberg

I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness…

— David O. Russell

So what I liked about Zen was that it never goes off into the realm of imagination land, or if it does occasionally, the…

— Brad Warner