“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, give it, give it all. Give it now…some more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water.

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful; it is destructive. Anything you did not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”  – Annie Dillard (From page 245 of Writing With Emotion, Tension, and Conflict: Techniques for Crafting an Expressive and Compelling by Cheryl St.John)