New Orts #89

September 21 MMXXV

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne
—Chaucer (c.1345-1400), in The Parliament of Fowls

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
— Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
— Saul Bellow (1915-2005 )

You write and then you erase. You call that a profession?
— Saul Bellow's father