All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.”

“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.”

“The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!”

“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme — and when you so give yourself — you lose appetite ans sleep — it cannot be helped –”

“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my pen is like a shard that has been chipped from a great boulder by a violent impact, then flung far away; because there is no certitude outside falsification.”

“For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?”

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life.”

“In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”

“I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.”

“A book, a true book, is the writer’s confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.”

“Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!”

“When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.”

“I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.”

“IntoxicatedWith the madnessI’m in love withMy sadnessBullshit beggars, enchanted kingdomFashion victims through their charcoaled teeth”

“History never repeats itself, historians do.”