Quotes About Writing

P.S. I close my eyes and see a seagull in the desert, high, against unbearably blue sky. There is hope in the past. I'm writing to you all the time, I am writing with both hands, day and night.

Writing—the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye," which, he had no doubt, "is the great invention of the world.

I remember loving pencils. I was fond of paper. I loved the small of textbooks. I loved the way the light from a desk lamp was bright on a page. I loved the smell of fresh-cut grass. It was a thing everybody loved, but there was no shame in being that much like everybody else, in sharing that.

The writers who get my personal award are the ones who show exceptional promise of looking at their lives in this world as candidly and searchingly and feelingly as they know how and then of telling the rest of us what they have found there most worth finding. We need the eyes of writers like that to see through. We need the blood of writers like that in our veins.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.

Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.

It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit. It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the reading idlers. He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers—and spirit itself will stink.

Yazar olmaya utanan en iyi yazar olacakt?r.

Ich will keinen Autor mehr lesen, dem man anmerkt, er wollte ein Buch machen; sondern nur jene, deren Gedanken unversehens ein Buch werden.

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

B: But why, then, do you write? - A: Well, my friend, I say this in confidence: until now I have found no other means of getting rid of my thoughts. (part 2- 93)

I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems are.

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite.

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica.

La muerta del Creador implica finalmente la muerte del creador. Lo cual no impide que Michel Foucault y Jacques Derrida firmen como autores de sus libros...