It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

On the best day, there's no context for the moment. Often, the best writing and pieces have been lost to not having been digitized.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.