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... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography. More
... aside from the financial aspect, [there] is more: the life of my work. I feel that is all I... More
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only... More
... everyone developing
A language of his own to write his book in,
And one to cap the... More
... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage. More
... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would... More
... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt ...... More
... in writing you cannot possibly be interesting if what you say is not true, if it is what I... More
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The... More
... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks... More
... like a woman made frigid, I had to learn response, to trust this possibility for fruition... More
... no writing is a waste of time,—no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the... More
... often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and colour. I have the... More
... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is... More
... people will sometimes say, “Why don’t you write more politics?” And I have to explain... More
... perhaps there exists only one intelligence from which the world sublets, one intelligence... More
... should one sit down to paint the scenes among which he has grown, he will find that the facts... More
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life. More
... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an... More
... the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. More
... the Ovarian Theory of Literature, or, rather, its complement, the Testicular Theory. A recent... More
... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the... More
... the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. More
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more... More
... to be “literary” appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance. More
... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any... More
... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find... More
... we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee... More
... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules... More
... writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of... More
... writing is not a performance but a generosity. More
... writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing... More
... writing is the enemy of forgetfulness, of thoughtlessness. For the writer there is no... More
...Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not... More
...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all... More
...I don’t have an inner drive to do as well as anybody else ... I have a great pleasure in... More
...I feel more alive when I’m writing than I do at any other time—except when I’m making... More
...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. More
...it is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure... More
...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could... More
A bibulation of sports writers, a yammer of radio announcers, a guilt of umpires, an indigence of... More
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners,... More
A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive
acquaintance with English literature,... More
A cow does not know how much milk it has until the milkman starts working on it. Then it looks... More
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must... More
A friend of mine spoke of books that are dedicated like this: “To my wife, by whose helpful... More
A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck. More
A good memory is not as good as a ragged pen. More
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. More
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No... More
A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his... More
A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly... More
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. More
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser... More
A just thinker will allow full swing to his skepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because... More
A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,
Our... More
A literary woman’s best critic is her husband ... More
A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it ... More
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with... More
A man who writes knows too much,
such spells and fetiches!
As if erections and congresses... More
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life.... More
A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure... More
A pathological business, writing, don’t you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all... More
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue... More
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or... More
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn. More
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. More
A transition from an author’s books to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a... More
A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. More
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be... More
A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing... More
A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children... More
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen... More
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely... More
A writer is like a bean plant—he has his little day, and then he gets stringy. More
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. More
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face... More
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. More
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more... More
After a month or so I get used to the book’s final stage, to its having been weaned from my... More
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers... More
All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words. More
All day I’d looked in the face
What I had hoped ‘twould be
To write for my own... More
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. More
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter....... More
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to children by the hands of storytellers and... More
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.... More
All writing comes by the grace of God, and all doing and having. More
Alone with our madness and favorite flower
We see that there really is nothing left to write... More
Although I had been scribbling in English all my literary life in the margin, so to say, of my... More
Although I mean it, and project the meaning
As hard as I can into its brushed-metal... More
Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any... More
Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings. More
Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told: somehow he publishes it with solemn joy:... More
An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask. More
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. More
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own... More
And he who dribbled couplets like a snake
Coiled to a lithe precision in the sun
Is missing. More
And if anyone should think I am tracing this matter too curiously, I, who have considered it in... More
And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with... More

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