If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.