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

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

... the spirit, I think, is a stream, a fountain, and must be continually poured out, for only if it is poured out will more and clearer streams come.

You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.

Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.