Gail Sher is an accomplished writer and a practising Buddhist and she combines these disciplines wonderfully in One Continuous Mistake. It's a book of thought, anecdote and encouragement for every writer.

She shares the Four Noble Truths:

• Writers write
  
• Writing is a process
  
• You don't know what your writing will be till the end of the process
  
• If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write

One of my favourite books on the writing life.