Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 114.
“I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.”
“Write knowledge since you can’t memorize unless with writing. Heart confides to the written.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.1, p. 202
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
“It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies”
Source: On the Road
Source: About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews
“Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
"somewhat less sinister ducks" Blog entry (23 April 2004) http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004/04/somewhat-less-sinister-ducks.asp
"Unsaid" http://www.danagioia.net/poems/unsaid.htm
Poetry, Interrogations at Noon (2001)
“not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.”
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
