Leaping beyond the boundary of delusion and enlightenment, free from the paths of ordinary and sacred, unconstrained by ordinary thinking, immediately wander at ease, enriched with great enlightenment.  When you practice in this way, how can those who are concerned with the traps and snares of words and letters be compared with you?

-Dogen

Things I remind myself of:

Do no be a writer.  Do not wish to become a writer.  Do not even write yourself.  Do not explain to yourself why you write.  Do not believe that writing has something to do with you.  Do not believe that writing will make you whole or destroy you - it will do neither; don't think it will do anything for anyone else.  You won't save anyone and you won't be saved, but also: there is no one in need of saving, so write or chop wood or climb or run, whatever, fully.  Do not believe that writing will make you satisfied and do not believe that it will somehow be unsatisfactory - how can chopping wood be satisfactory or unsatisfactory; how can a tree growing be satisfactory or unsatisfactory; whole or not?  Do not be trapped by your writing or by being a writer - aim at nothing and then there will be something larger than you that is there already.  A writer is not a writer, but if we were to call her a writer, she neither loves the dark nor fumbles around in the light; she isn't even a writer; she just accepts all things and lets them go through her - as soon as you say light and dark you are trapped.  Do not be fooled by language and do not think that truth can be conveyed in language; know instead that language itself is reality in the same way that the wordless sky is reality.  Do not want to be great, a great shark, not a great writer or a great person; be a cloud blown about which will soon disperse; it's what you are no matter what, even those supposed great ones, and words are both merely words and something else just as we are merely ourselves and something else.  No need to be great, not a writer, no need to be anything.