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

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

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