Quotes About Writing

I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Het juiste woord, de precisie van de formulering, (...) verschaft de schrijver die 'heimelijke zorgeloosheid', het geluksgevoel. Citaat uit 'De vreugde van het formuleren

What you should do when you're writing a book is you should have a question and it should be a real question. It should be one you don't know the answer to and then you should be studying and writing like mad and reading everything you can get your hands on to see if you can actually grapple with the problem and come to some solution and you should walk the reader as well through your process of thinking.

There's nothing that requires you to think more deeply than to write a book. (Interview with Chris Williamson)

Solzhenitsyn's writing utterly and finally demolished the intellectual credibility of communism, as ideology or society. He took an axe to the trunk of the tree whose bitter fruits had nourished him so poorly—and whose planting he had witnessed and supported

Writing is so difficult. It's one of those things everyone thinks they can do, just because they can put together an email. But doing it well is another story.

You can't write a sonnet if you have to look up the spelling of each word as you go.

All mathematical writing is creative writing.

Escribir es el orgasmo contínuo

Az orvos csak annyit tud, hogy szépen beszél meg rondán ír.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses--clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.

De hát én írom ezt a történetet, s úgy írom, ahogy kedvem tartja.

No hay calidad sin entrenamiento. Un escritor solo puede innovar si tiene hábitos lingüísticos poderosos y fértiles. Inventemos desde lo que sabemos. José Antonio Marina

En qué código, en qué escritura, en qué ciencia había aprendido yo que los prejuicios priman sobre las realidades? ¿Por qué era mejor que otros, sino por mis obras? El hombre de talento debe ser como la muerte, que no reconoce categorías. […] Usted sólo tiene un problema sumo, a cuya lado huelgan todos los otros: adquirir dinero para sustentar la modestia decorosamente. El resto viene por añadidura.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Write whatever you want. Danny, my dear friend, write and tell me what life really is.

I really admired Cesar Chavez and Gandhi, but my form of activism would have to be the written word, not the empty stomach. My parents had brought my family t the United States because of the fear of empty stomachs.

Cómo harán los que escriben? ¿Cómo lograrán que sus palabras los obedezcan? Las mías van por donde quieren, por donde pueden.

Pensé que era fácil empezar. Abrí un cuaderno, comprado expresamente. Preparé un plan, hice una especie de esquema. [...] Pero inmediatamente sentí el temor.

Si encontrara una primera frase, fuerte, precisa, impresionante, tal vez la segunda sería más fácil y la tercera vendría por sí misma.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.