I lived to write, and wrote to live

So I guess, in writing from my cell in the penitentiary, my question comes late. But what's the call? How could I have addressed this problem more calmly?

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched none that he did not adorn.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.