Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Category Archives: Writing
Wise Words: Marcel Proust
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of a translator.
Wise Words: Joyce Carol Oates
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
Wise Words: Sinclair Lewis
It is impossible to discourage the real writers—they don’t give a damn what you say; they’re going to write.
Wise Words: Hisham Matar
Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have continued if the book hadn’t been written. When you come across a book like that, it is a privilege.
Wise Words: Mark Twain: majority
When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to stop and reconsider.
Wise Words: Stephen King
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. . . . Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.
Wise Words: H. L. Mencken
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Wise Words: Hans Hofmann
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Wise Words: Jack London
You can’t wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club.
