Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

This nation has dehumanized its adversaries
calling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.

This nation has dehumanized its adversaries
calling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they read more

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

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

Writing only leads to more writing.

Writing only leads to more writing.