The shortest answer is doing the thing.

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.