Quotes About Writing

Y si escribir es, en el libro, hacerse legible para todos, e indescifrable para sí mismo?

Por eso escribo. Por eso y porque encuentro un placer en estar escondido, y porque estoy desengañado ya para siempre de la vida.»

Escribir para ser sobre todo fotografiado, amargo destino.

el proceso de escribir propiamente dicho es el que permite al autor descubrir lo que quiere decir

algo que me ha llamado últimamente la atención: que haya tantos narradores que se crean preparados para escribir una novela; se sienten tan increíblemente preparados que en su inagotable vanidad están convencidos de que la harán y la harán muy bien

37) Reconozco que son una perla condensada de Monsieur Teste las frases de Valéry que Derain me ha seleccionado: "No era Monsieur Teste filósofo ni nada por el estilo. Ni siquiera era literato. Y, gracias a eso, pensaba mucho. Cuanto más se escribe, menos se piensa".

Escrever é corrigir a vida

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment success doesn't make it easy.

Edward Said y Theodor W. Adorno, que eran refinados musicólogos, dedicaron páginas muy interesantes al contrapunto y la disonancia, una escritura musical y una forma estética fundadas sobre el contraste más que sobre la armonía tonal.[1] Son excelentes metáforas para definir el papel del intelectual.

Only an idiot believes he can write the truth about himself.

The Colonel's face cleared, 'My dear fellow, of course he should. One cannot write about that which one has never seen.

Good writing just isn't that common.

Author's Afterword

To write code this way, you need to consider the events that can happen, and how your code should react. Computer science types like to say that this kind of code is asynchronous, because we're writing code to be invoked later, if and when an event occurs. This

Rilke had a line...something about fishes. Or was that by someone else? Too much had already been written, too many pages, too many words. Maybe writers would be better to just stop, himself included, so that people could catch up. Maybe one day they'd reach a limit. No more books would be able to fit into the universe's bookshelves, not another paragraph squeezed in, not even a punctuation mark. Writers would have to find something else to do. It might be the best thing.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories, and a painful boil.

A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

prison that October, but the manuscript

When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication: and many, whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly or, at best, inconsistently.

I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission

Many of my poems seek to invent a language—as if to break out of conventional usage, illuminate the sand pits, and find open paths to emancipation." "I am never without pen and paper."-Erica Hunt

Writers are not the sanest lunatics in the asylum...

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.