Quotes About Writing

A thing that corrupts N's worldview is his own demonic energy, which is what socalled greatness may in fact reduce to. He's unnatural. He can work six hours flagstoning or paving, scabs of cement stuck all over his body, a bite to eat, into the bathing engine, and he's all set to work late into the night reading and writing and using his abacus.

He sat up quickly, pulled the book out from under him, put on a green eyeshade, and waited with his pen poised in the air.

I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist. O'Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905)

Al escribir historia me refiero a la general o universal. No hay otra: lo que se llama historia patria es espejo del hombre -y entonces es también universal- o es una anécdota de sobremesa.

Sound, the blindman's cane of sense: I write death and for a moment I live within it. I inhabit its sound: a pneumatic cube of glass, vibrating on this page, vanishing among its echoes.

Hermandad Soy hombre: duro poco y es enorme la noche. Pero miro hacia arriba: las estrellas escriben. Sin entender comprendo: también soy escritura y en este mismo instante alguien me deletrea.

Writing, I am convinced, is the least appreciated of all the creative arts. Only a miniscule portion of the population engages in sculpting or painting or composing but everyone writes - whether it be letters, invitations, shopping lists...It is not far-fetched, therefore, for anyone with a smattering of self-esteem to believe that if he or she had the time, and the desire, an acceptable book or article could be produced.

I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to become too conscious of it.

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.

You know, I may have another book in me, old man.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. —Margaret Atwood

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. —Susan Sontag

N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.

After all, nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

Porque nada puede ser tan sorprendente como la vida. Excepto la escritura. Excepto la escritura. Si, por supuesto, excepto la escritura, el único consuelo

Galip, bir keresinde, Rüyâ'ya yazar?n da katilin kim olduÄŸunu bilmediÄŸi bir polisiye roman yaz?l?rsa okuyaca??n? söylemiÅŸti.

Çünkü hiçbir ÅŸey hayat kadar ÅŸa??rt?c? olamaz. Yaz? hariç. Yaz? hariç. Evet tabii, tek teselli yaz? hariç.

Sewaktu muda, Ka sangat meyakini bahwa tidak ada yang lebih terhormat selain mati akibat alasan politik intelektual, atau untuk membela apa yang telah ditulisnya.

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. When I speak of writing, the image that comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or a literary tradition; it is the person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and, alone, turns inward. Amid his shadows, he builds a new world with words.

To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.

no cambiaría nada saber que la escritura, que cualquier texto, no trata de la vida sino del sueño, por el mero hecho de ser escritura.

Zaten romanc? olmak kendi duygular?n?zdan bir baÅŸkas?n?n duygular? gibi ve bir baÅŸkalar?n?n duygular?ndan da kendi duygular?n?z gibi söz edebilme hüneridir.