Artists who don't paint aren't artists.
Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.
our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.
The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, truly sacrifice it. Only then may the book, the real live flawed finite book, slowly, sentence by carnal sentence, appear.
How we learn is what we learn.
Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
He caught that with the outside of his instep.
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.
The whole secret of era is to specific no nervousness. Never nervousness what fortitude become of you, depend on no one. Free the twinkling you annul all help are you unrestricting.
It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.