You cannot write unless you write much.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.

Not knowing how to read and write is only the top of that morbid state of being. Not knowing how to read and write leads to not knowing where windows come from, how cars are made, how people pay for cars. Not knowing how to read and write is only the top of the problem, because behind that wall you don't know anything and how anything operates in society, and that's the nightmare.

If you think you are capable of living without writing, do not write,

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

I write because I cannot NOT write.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

Of course I can’t write all the time. Some days I sit and sit and SIT at my machines and not a word will come. But I sit there and if it is possible I write something, it doesn’t matter what. The next day I may have to tear it up, but often what I think is very poor the first day turns out to be usable in spots.

I could not think without writing.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Writing things down is dangerous. Ink can’t be erased without leaving a mess behind.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.