Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading. If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write… - Toni Morrison

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.

We all know nations that can be identified by the flight of writers from their shores. These are regimes whose fear of unmonitored writing is justified because truth is trouble. It is trouble for the warmonger, the torturer, the corporate thief, the political hack, the corrupt justice system, and for a comatose public. Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world’s resources. The alarm, the disquiet, writers raise is instructive because it is open and vulnerable, because if unpoliced it is threatening. Therefore the historical suppression of writers is the earliest harbinger of the steady peeling away of additional rights and liberties that will follow.

No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.