Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.
Write what should not be forgotten.
Write out the story — rapidly, fluently, and not too critically — following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Write Injuries in Dust, Benefits in Marble.
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Write for the world to read and see your exact pictures of it.
Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Words are like breath, you say them and they’re gone. But writing traps them.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.
