Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

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Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.

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The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

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There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

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DWIGHT:Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.

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Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

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I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

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

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

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

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

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Never put off writing until you are better at it.

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If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

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A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

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Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

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