“Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?”
“You're gone. No mailing address.But I send you letters anyway.”
“It's not the letter she imagined she would write, but once you start, all the other letters you've ever written in your life have a way of creeping in.”
“The thing is not to write what no one else could have written, but to write what only you could have written.”
“To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.”
“You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.”