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I have never sought the reason why I write.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

Quote by Nathalie Sarraute about literature, reason

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

Quote by Nathalie Sarraute about literature, writers

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the...

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Quote by Manuel Puig about literature, fiction, essential, imagination, order

I essentially write for myself.

I essentially write for myself.

Quote by Leon Uris about literature

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

DQuote by Danielle Steel about literature

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

Quote by James Thomas Farrell about literature, god, man

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

Quote by Zane Grey about literature, work, love

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned...

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Quote by Hector Berlioz about music, forgetness, despair, time

You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their technique, but either they're fast or they're...

Quote by Richard Price about literature, fasting, writers, contentment, work, people

I write books to find out about things.

I write books to find out about things.

Quote by Rebecca West about books, things

I write and the sky translates my wounds in blue.

I write and the sky translates my wounds in blue.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about aphorisms, sky

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished...

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about opinion, genius, children

And I write my purest thoughts in the soil so that my...

And I write my purest thoughts in the soil so that my ancestors may smile.

Quote by Johnny Hampton about thinking, ancestors, smile

Speaking about poetry you never know if you will write...

Speaking about poetry you never know if you will write after a week or never.

Quote by Alexandru Musina about poetry, contentment

What can I write for you to like me? All great words were...

What can I write for you to like me? All great words were already said before. Better I keep my silence.

Quote by Corneliu Vadim Tudor about writing, silence, word, contentment

My anxiety poem I write a poem today it will die tomorrow. It rises on its shivering feet of words it catches my attention and pulse as a living creature in another century - higher, unborn - and rises up, upper and upper, from...

Quote by Olimpiu Nusfelean about poetry, silence, attention, common sense, sense, word, death

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

Quote by Samuel Rogers about literature

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

Quote by Peter O'Toole about writing, art, magic

Hypocrisy is not just a fault, as the moralist writers think, but also a way to conserve your energy and avoid embarrassing situations. Madam Voltaire, 1979

Quote by Teodor Mazilu about hypocrisy, writers

In life, we assume so much, some of it might be true. One thing for certain, a good quote followedcan make one's day more cheerful. As the Sun shines, bright in my window, I wish the world could peep in, instead I will write my quotes for them....

Quote by Eleanor R. Hampton about poetry, word, rightness, contentment, sun, wish, night, peace, heart, things

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