Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
A writer doesn't die of heart failure, but of typographical errors.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
In those days I seemed to have had two muses: the essential, hysterical, genuine one, who tortured me with elusive snatches of imagery and wrung her hands over my inability to appropriate the magic and madness offered me; and her apprentice, her palette girl and stand-in, a little logician, who stuffed the torn gaps left by her mistress with explanatory or meter-mending fillers which became more and more numerous the further I moved away from the initial, evanescent, savage perfection.
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.
Writing is a struggle against silence.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
