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Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have read more
Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all read more
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Whether or not you write well, write bravely
Whether or not you write well, write bravely
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in read more
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.