36 thoughts on writers, writing, and literature

Is coming Day of the book. Y what is a book without a writer? What is literature without the thoughts of those writers? Your thoughts, your imagination, your illusions and dreams, your hopes, your blocks, your achievements and your failures. Every aspect of literary creation, every opinion or every definition about the profession is unique to that writer.

Here are 36 of them that we can share or not, but that will undoubtedly make us think. Or not. Let's see them. I stay with those of Bill Adler, Alfredo Conde, Manuel del Arco, Jesús Fernández Santos, Julien Green and Adelaida García Morales

  1. Writing is the loneliest job in the world - Bill adler.
  2. Every writer compensates himself, as he can, for some dissatisfaction or bad luck - Arthur Adamov.
  3. Literature, by its very nature, is bound to question the assumptions of yesterday and the platitudes of today -robert martin adams.
  4. Writing is for me like crocheting: I am always afraid that I will miss a point - Isabel Allende.
  5. One page took me a long time. Two pages a day is good. Three pages is splendid - Kingsley William Amis.
  6. There are many who write very well to say nothing - Francis Ayala.
  7. Once you have learned the grammar, writing is simply talking to the paper and at the same time learning what not to say - Beryl bainbridge.
  8. I think rather that you think from what you write and not the other way around - louis aragon.
  9. The difficult thing is not to write, the really difficult thing is to be read - Manual of the Arch.
  10. Guerra y paz It makes me sick because I didn't write it myself, and worse still, I wouldn't be able to - Jeffrey H. Archer.
  11. Every writer creates his predecessors - Jorge Luis Borges.
  12. A writer is not defined in any way by a certificate, but by what he writes - Mikhail Afanósevich Bulgakov.
  13. Literary quality is inversely proportional to the number of readers - John Benet.
  14. Finishing a book is like taking a child outside and shooting him - Truman Capote.
  15. Literature can be eternal as such, but not the feelings that gave birth to it - Pierre Blanche.
  16. To be a writer is to steal life from death - Alfred Count.
  17. Those who want to disguise life with the crazy mask of literature lie - Camilo José Cela.
  18. As long as thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but towards life - cyril connolly.
  19. The writer who writes well is the architect of history - John Dos Passos.
  20. The unusual is found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and this is precisely the essence of literature - Julio Cortazar.
  21. Between the inaccessible intention of the author and the debatable intention of the reader is the transparent intention of the text that refutes an untenable interpretation - Umberto Eco.
  22. There are three reasons to become a writer: because you need the money; because you have something to say that the world should know; and because you don't know what to do in the long afternoons - Quentin crisp.
  23. Literature would be too tense if there were only immortal authors in it. We must take them as they are, and not expect them to last - Oliver edwards.
  24. The writer can be compared to the witness for the prosecution or the defense, since, like a witness in court, he perceives certain things that escape others - Ilya Ernenburg.
  25. The devil is a necessary element, in literature and in life; if life is expelled it would be sad, sliding between two poles of eternity, and literature would be only the hymn to sadness - Omar fakhury.
  26. The writer does not retire in an ivory tower, but in a dynamite factory - Max frisch.
  27. Taking and rejecting examples, overcoming them by the force of the self, such is the activity of the writer with a vocation - Constantine Fedine.
  28. When you write, show a world at your size - Jesus Fernandez Santos.
  29. When I write, I try to recover some certainties that can encourage people to live and help others to look - Eduardo galeano.
  30. I am not looking for a large number of readers, but a certain number of readers - John Goytisolo.
  31. The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that it really is very good, despite all the people who say it is very good - Robert Graves.
  32. Thought flies and words go on foot. Here is the writer's drama - Julien green.
  33. The only decent thing a writer can do to make his books sell is write them well - Gabriel García Márquez.
  34. For a writer success is always temporary, it is always failure - Graham Greene.
  35. In the process of writing imagination and memory are confused - Adelaida Garcia Morales.
  36. Some writers are only born to help another writer write a sentence. But a writer cannot derive from a classic that precedes him - Ernest Hemingway.

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