Joan

“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”
― Annie Dillard

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke