Writer Quotes and Sayings
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
~ James Thurber. Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy. ~ Vladimir Nabokov. The experience...of the woman writer is completely schizophrenic. One is always torn between two approaches: on the one hand, to use a language that is not ours...and on the other, the battle one fights to break all this up, in order to do something else through, and in language. ~ Monique Wittig. When I was excited about life, I didn’t want to write at all. I’ve never written when I was happy. I didn’t want to. But I’ve never had a long period of being happy. Do you think anyone has? I think you can be peaceful for a long time. When I think about it, if I had to choose, I’d rather be happy than write. You see, there’s very little invention in my books. What came first with most of them was the wish to get rid of this awful sadness that weighed me down. I found when I was a child that if I could put the hurt into words, it would go. It leaves a sort of melancholy behind and then it goes. ~ Jean Rhys. |
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