If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average

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.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but read more

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

Writing only leads to more writing.

Writing only leads to more writing.

Whether or not you write well, write bravely

Whether or not you write well, write bravely

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read more

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is read more

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.