You May Also Like / View all maxioms
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, read more
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is read more
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure read more
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.
