Quotes About Writing

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

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If only we could reach back before the concept, could write on a level with the senses, record the infinitesimal variations of what we touch, do what a reptile would do if it were to set about writing!

Dac? mi-aÅŸ asculta întâia pornire, toat? ziua aÅŸ scrie scrisori cu injurii ÅŸi scrisori de adio.

The mystics and their "collected works." When one addresses oneself to God, and to God alone, as they claim to do, one should be careful not to write. God doesn't read. . . .

At bottom, for me, the act of writing is a sort of dialogue with God. I say with God, but I am not a believer, although I cannot say that I am an unbeliever either. But for me, this meeting with God is in the act of writing. A solitude which meets another, a solitude in front of another solitude. 'God' being more alone than oneself. Such a shame that, to reach God, there is no bypassing faith.

În sfârÅŸit, înÅ£elepciunea. Nu-mi mai fac niciun plan, nu mai scriu un rând. Cincisprezece c?rÅ£i, cincisprezece cadavre - cred c? ajunge.

Am observat ca acei-sau acele- care se intereseaza cat de cat de ceea ce scriu au o trasatura comuna:neurastenia(ca sa simplificam). Nimeni sa nu deschida aceasta cartr daca n-a fost bantuit de anxietate-iata ce ar trebui sa scrie pe banderola fiecareia dintre cartile mele.

Les mystiques et leurs «  Å"uvres  complètes ». Quand on s'adresse à Dieu, et à Dieu seul, comme ils le prétendent, on devrait se garder d'écrire. Dieu ne lit pas...

Secondo me l'atto di scrivere è proprio questo, dico sul serio: un atto di immensa solitudine. Lo scrittore non ha senso se non in queste condizioni. Quello che fai dopo è prostituzione. Ma non appena accetti di esistere, devi accettare la prostituzione. Per me chiunque non si suicidi è in qualche modo uno che si prostituisce.

The more injured you are by time, the more you seek to escape it. To write a faultless page, or only a sentence, raises you above becoming and its corruptions. You transcend death by the pursuit of the indestructible in speech, in the very symbol of nullity.

The things that we have expressed we believe a little less in. Why? Because they detach themselves from you. In that sense, really the fact of writing is a kind of profanation. Because the things in which you believe fully, from the moment you have said them, they mean less to you.

On devrait s'en tenir à un seul idiome, et en approfondir lamconnaissance à chaque occasion. Pour un écrivain, bavarder avec une concierge est bien plus profitable que s'entretenir avec un savant dans une langue étrangère.

Our self-knowledge annoys and paralyzes our daimon—this is where we should look for the reason Socrates wrote nothing.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall? To publish one's taints in order to amuse or exasperate!

Poem, novel, essay, play—everything seems too long. The writer—it is his function—always says more than he has to say: he swells his thought and swathes it with words.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty. A printed work which cannot be read becomes a product without purpose.

Scrivere è viaggiare senza la seccatura dei bagagli.

When the words won't come, I take my work for a walk. Literally, I put pages in my pocket and take a hike in an unfamiliar place...." — @emilyebernard

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

At any rate, the pre-historic times were spent in making men capable of writing a history, and having something to put in it when it is written, and we can see how it was done.

Some extreme sceptics, we know, doubt whether it is possible to deduce anything as to an author's character from his works. Yet surely people do not keep a tame steam engine to write their books; and if those books were really written by a man, he must have been a man who could write them; he must have had the thoughts which they express, have acquired the knowledge they contain, have possessed the style in which we read them.

I edit with a pen, I write on a computer. I've always had trouble with pencils because they get dull so quickly, or they just break, and then there's that ­awful shuddery feeling when you're trying to write with a couple of scraps of wood poking out.