writing
“A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.”
“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.”
“Writing is a form of personal freedom.”
“I don’t know what I think until I write it.”
“Writers are always selling somebody out.”
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking.”
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”
“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
“The desire to write grows with writing.”
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
“The man is nothing, the work — all.”
“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
“Paper has more patience than people.”
“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.”
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.”
“I want to go on living even after my death.”
“Kill your darlings.”
“The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.”