Writing (n.) is not like a painting on canvas or a sculpture in marble, but is a medium able to be breathed from all human lips... as such, writing is carved out of the breath of life itself.
Writing (n.) is such that it is vein to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Writing (n.) is sometimes the record of a deed, sometimes it is the deed itself. It is nobler when it is the deed.
Writing (n.) is difficult — A perfectly healthy sentence is extremely rare.
Writing (n.) is best cleared of palaver and sentimentality by steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also.