Joan

“Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”
― Annie Dillard