Writing Thoughts

"One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Don’t hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The very 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."

This comes from Annie Dillard, whom I really need to reread in light of a deeper understanding of writing and ....well, everything. 

This quote I lifted from a website called Brain Pickings that has many interesting articles on art, although with a (typically) "inclusive" focus. You can take that adjective for what it's worth. https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/28/annie-dillard-writing-the-abundance/