Kenneth Patchen Quote

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.


The Journal of Albion Moonlight (ed. New Directions Publishing, 1961) - ISBN: 9780811201445


Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just...

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just...

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just...

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just...