“In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.”

“Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”

“There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.”

“Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief
that sustains thought and holds the world together.”

“The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.”

“He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.”

“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”

“Wiki has a feel of brainstorming, though it's not as interactive. You can do 10 minutes of brainstorming, and 30 minutes of analysis of the product of that brainstorming, and have something in 45 minutes. The pace on wiki is slower. You could write a page about an idea, or maybe a page about a bunch of ideas. Then you could come back in a week and see what's developed on that page.”