Planning to write is not writing.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.