Writing Well – Annie Dillard: “spend it all every time”
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.
Do not hoard what seems good for a later place… Something more will arise for later, something better. …
Assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case…. What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? ///
Many fine people are out there living, people whose consciences permit them to sleep at night despite their not having written a decent sentence that day, or ever.
Annie Dillard – in her book The Writing Life
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