“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
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The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: Three things are in your head: First, everything you have experienced from the day of your birth until right now. Every single second, every single hour, every single day. Then, how you reacted to those events in the minute of their happening, whether they were disastrous or joyful. Those are two things you have in your mind to give you material. Then, separate from the living experiences are all the art experiences you’ve had, the things you’ve learned from other writers, artists, poets, film directors, and composers. So all of this is in your mind as a fabulous mulch and you have to bring it out. How do you do that? I did it by making lists of nouns and then asking, What does each noun mean? You can go and make up your own list right now and it would be different than mine. The night. The crickets. The train whistle. The basement. The attic. The tennis shoes. The fireworks. All these things are very personal. Then, when you get the list down, you begin to word-associate around it. You ask, Why did I put this word down? What does it mean to me? Why did I put this noun down and not some other word? Do this and you’re on your way to being a good writer. You can’t write for other people. You can’t write for the left or the right, this religion or that religion, or this belief or that belief. You have to write the way you see things.

“Writing is prophesy.
Don’t write anything unless you want it to come true.”
Spying on Strange Men (2013)

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
Christian Science Monitor (October 24, 1979).

“You can’t lead bunny lives and write tiger poetry.”
From the book Art of Poetry Writing: A Guide For Poets, Students, & Readers https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/467125.Art_of_Poetry_Writing published by St. Martin's Press on June 15, 1992.

“No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.”
Source: The Art of Literature
“Good writing is lean and confident.”
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 114.