no so much a quote but a cliche. "writers write."

hannah arendt on meaning: "It is true that storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it, that it brings about consent and reconciliation with things as they really are, and that we may even trust it to contain eventually by implication that last word which we expect from the Day of Judgment”.

suit the action to the word, the word to the action. idk shakespeare probably

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. - Franz Kafka

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know" - hemingway