"Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know. The page, the page, that eternal blankness,..."

"Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.

The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time's scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you touch but touching it nevertheless…"

- Annie Dillard, The Writing Life