Schreiben
“Töte deine Lieblinge.”
“Schreibe eine wahre Zeile.”
“Der erste Entwurf ist Mist.”
“Schreiben heißt, gegen das Vergessen anzuschreiben.”
“Ich kann alles abschütteln, wenn ich schreibe.”
“Wie soll ich wissen, was ich denke, bevor ich sehe, was ich sage?”
“Ein Schriftsteller braucht Erfahrung, Beobachtung und Phantasie.”
“Lies, lies, lies – alles; dann schreibe.”
“Die Lust zu schreiben wächst mit dem Schreiben.”
“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
“Planning to write is not writing.”
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking.”
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
“You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.”
“At its best the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace.”
“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”
“Every sign can be cited and placed in quotation marks; in so doing it can break with every given context.”
“I have but one language—yet that language is not mine.”
“There is nothing outside the text.”