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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.

Kenneth Patchen
Writing, Thinking, Done
Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.18, New Directions Publishing
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.