- Elizabeth Bowen
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it,
all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the
book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save
something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something
more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from
beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have
learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and
abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
- Annie Dillard
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| By Jen Corace |
