Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.

You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that you can write opulently and with self-trust. If you once become aware of it and have faith in it, you will be all right.

we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.