Revision Is One Of The Exquisite Pleasures

To Any Writer: Teach Yourself To Work In Uncertainty. Many Writers Are Anxious When They Begin, Or Try Something New. Even Matisse Painted Some Of His Fauvist Pictures In Anxiety. Maybe That Helped Him To Simplify. Character, Discipline, Negative Capability Count. Write, Complete, Revise. If It Doesn't Work, Begin Something Else.

The Great Thing About Writing: Stay With It ... Ultimately You Teach Yourself Something Very Important About Yourself.

We Didn't Starve But Nobody Ate Chicken Unless We Were Sick Or The Chicken Was.

A Man Is An Island In The Only Sense That Matters, Not An Easy Way To Be. We Live In Mystery, A Cosmos Of Separate Lonely Bodies, Men, Insects, Stars. It Is All Loneliness And Men Know It Best.

There Is In The Darkness A Unity, If You Will, That Cannot Be Achieved In Any Other Environment, A Blending Of Self With What The Self Perceives, And Exquisite Mystical Experience.