Anne Sexton on writing

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.

To love another is something
like prayer and it can’t be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778

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Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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