Quotes About Writing

That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate--at all costs, unfotunately.

Cara signora Milena, la giornata è molto breve, con Lei e soltanto con qualche altra inezia è bell'e passata e terminata. E' molto se rimane un po' di tempo per scrivere alla vera Milena perché quella ancor più vera era qui tutto il giorno nella camera, sul balcone, nelle nuvole.

Hayat?n ve ümidin düÅŸman? bir ortam içinde yazma eylemi kiÅŸinin kendi ipini çekmeden önce vasiyetini yazma isteÄŸinden baÅŸka bir ÅŸey olam?yordu.

When I say something it immediately and definitively loses its importance, when I write it down it always loses it too, but sometimes gains a new one.

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward…

?ki saatlik ya?am iki sayfal?k bir yaz?dan daha iyidir diye emin olmay?n. Yaz? yoksuldur ama daha temizdir.

Toda esta escritura no es otra cosa que la bandera de Robinson en el punto más alto de la isla.

I'm not suggesting that you don't master German. Most of the time you master it surprisingly well and if once in a while you don't, it bows before you of its own accord, and this is particularly pleasing, for this is something a German doesn't dare to expect from his language, he doesn't dare to write so personally.

I should stop writing out of shame, because it is so easy.

Con vi?t là vi?t v? b?, con than vãn ? Ä'ó vì con không th? than vãn trên ngá»±c b?.

In what an effortless sleepiness I wrote this useless, unfinished thing.

Não me abandonarei à fadiga, lançar-me-ei inteiramente na minha novela, ainda que tenha que me cortar no rosto

Como, a despeito de todas as inquietações, repouso em cima do meu romance tal uma estátua que olha para longe, repousa sobre o soco.

But above all, the center of all the misery remains. I cannot write; I have not done a line I respect; on the other hand, I have excised everything I wrote after Paris—it wasn't much! My whole body warns me against every word; every word, before it lets me write it down, first looks around in all directions. The sentences literally crumble before me; I see their insides and then have to stop quickly.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity

So I only wrote half a page and am once again with you, laying on this letter like I lay next to you back then in the forest.

the strange, mysterious, perhaps dangerous, perhaps saving comfort that there is in writing...[is] a leap out of murderer's row.

God doesn't want me to write, but I - I must. So there's an everlasting up and down; after all, God is the stronger, and there's more anguish in it than you can imagine.

In no case was there anything to show that he was afflicted with blindness and this in spite of the fact that he exercised undue economy in the spacing of lines.

Duc o via?? dubl?,însp?imânt?toare,din care,dup? toate probabilit??ile,nu exist? alt? cale de ieÅŸire decât nebunia.Scriu toate acestea acum când s-a f?cut diminea?? de-a binelea ÅŸi,sigur,nu le-aÅŸ fi scris dac? toate n-ar fi atât de adev?rate Å£i dac? nu le-aÅŸ iubi ca un fiu

When we write something, we have not coughed up the moon, whose origins might then be investigated. Rather, we have moved to the moon with everything we have. Nothing has changed; there, we are what we were here. A thousand differences are possible in the tempo of the voyage, none in the fact itself.

It may be possible, I would not know, for a man who has conquered chaos to begin to write; those will be holy books. Or begin to love; that will be love, not fear of chaos...Not until the world has been ordered does the writer begin.

Ich schreibe anders als ich rede, ich rede anders als ich denke, ich denke anders als ich denken soll und so geht es weiter bis ins tiefste Dunkel. (10. Juli 1914)

Ecco, mia cara ragazza, di nuovo è sera dopo un pomeriggio passato vegliando (pomeriggio passato vegliando ha un suono peggiore che notte passata vegliando), non scrivo più nulla, tranne che a questa ragazza alla quale vorrei scrivere di continuo, della quale vorrei sempre sentir parlare, e stare sempre con lei e spegnermi in lei.