Writing, literature, books ... 40 reflections of authors

We are in autumn, a particularly inspiring time. For creators of all kinds and of course for writers. The tone and the colors around, the incipient cold, the rain and how everything moves around with a different rhythm. The moment invites reflection. And these are 40 by different authors about art, hobby or need for write.

  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 like crocheting for me: I'm always afraid that a stitch will slip away. Isabel Allende
  5. One page took me a long time. Two pages a day is good. Three pages is splendid. Kingsley 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. War and Peace makes me sick because I didn't write it myself, and, worse still, I wouldn't be able to. Jeffrey archer
  11. Each 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 Bulgakov
  13. The 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 only be 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 drama of the writer. Julien green
  33. The only decent thing a writer can do to make his books sell is to 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 become 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
  37. What makes the writing profession lively and exciting is the constant possibility of failure. Patricia Highsmith
  38. Literature is like the experience of love or a toothache. You have to feel it to know what it is. louis landero
  39. I think it is bad to talk about the (literary) work in progress, because that spoils anything at its creative roots, it discharges the tension. Norman Mailer
  40. How many times do we find readers enthusiastic about works that obviously do not say what they think they understand. Fernando Lazaro Carreter

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  1.   Fernando said

    "A writer who does not write is a monster courting madness." Franz kafka