Quotes about writing
writing past men
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels. Jose Saramago
writing trying
I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.
writing example novel
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
writing secret ifs
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
writing novelists essays
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
writing thinking issues
The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that. Jose Padilha
writing thinking light
The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others have written "jasmines, swans and fauns." But what he has really done has been simply to bring to light another form of rhetoric which hitherto lay hidden in the latrines. Jose Ortega y Gasset
writing two risk
Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?
writing erosion language
To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.
writing editors want
The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?" Jose Antonio Vargas
writing thinking said
A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think.
writing painful this-day
To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.
writing thinking people
I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work. Jorge Luis Borges
writing thinking mind
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
writing thinking differences
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.
writing thinking surface
I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up; it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.
writing order trying
When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
writing stories patterns
I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.
writing two giving
As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that I've always been fond of short stories, and it always took me some trouble to get through a novel.
writing thinking years
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.
writing waiting anxiety
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
writing literature
All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
writing achievement asking
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
writing causality problem
The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
writing thinking voice
Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things for himself), I would tell them simply this; I would ask them to tamper as little as they can with their own work. I do not think tinkering does any good. The moment comes when one has found out what one can do - when one has found one's natural voice, one's rhythm. Then I do not think that slight emendations should prove useful.
writing reality imagination
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.
writing simple earth
I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.
writing want doe
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
writing should-have appreciated
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
writing language hypothesis
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
writing laziness products
A writer's work is the product of laziness.
writing home practice
I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for all sorts of things: silent practice with headphones at home; writing; arranging and... just playing the blues! Jools Holland
writing too-much
I'm happy to write 10 times too much music. Jonny Greenwood