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.
- Writing is the loneliest job in the world. Bill adler
- Every writer compensates himself, as he can, for some dissatisfaction or bad luck. Arthur Adamov
- Literature, by its very nature, is bound to question the assumptions of yesterday and the platitudes of today. robert martin adams
- Writing is like crocheting for me: I'm always afraid that a stitch will slip away. Isabel Allende
- One page took me a long time. Two pages a day is good. Three pages is splendid. Kingsley amis
- There are many who write very well to say nothing. Francis Ayala
- 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
- I think rather that you think from what you write and not the other way around. louis aragon
- The difficult thing is not to write, the really difficult thing is to be read. Manual of the Arch
- War and Peace makes me sick because I didn't write it myself, and, worse still, I wouldn't be able to. Jeffrey archer
- Each writer creates his predecessors. Jorge Luis Borges
- A writer is not defined in any way by a certificate, but by what he writes. Mikhail Bulgakov
- The literary quality is inversely proportional to the number of readers. John Benet
- Finishing a book is like taking a child outside and shooting him. Truman Capote
- Literature can be eternal as such, but not the feelings that gave birth to it. Pierre Blanche
- To be a writer is to steal life from death. Alfred Count
- Those who want to disguise life with the crazy mask of literature lie. Camilo José Cela
- As long as thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but towards life. cyril connolly
- The writer who writes well is the architect of history. John Dos Passos
- The unusual is found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and this is precisely the essence of literature. Julio Cortazar
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The writer does not retire in an ivory tower, but in a dynamite factory. Max frisch
- Taking and rejecting examples, overcoming them by the force of the self, such is the activity of the writer with a vocation. Constantine Fedine
- When you write, show a world at your size. Jesus Fernandez Santos
- When I write, I try to recover some certainties that can encourage people to live and help others to look. Eduardo galeano
- I am not looking for a large number of readers, but a certain number of readers. John Goytisolo
- The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that it really is very good, despite all the people who say it is very good. Robert Graves
- Thought flies and words go on foot. Here is the drama of the writer. Julien green
- The only decent thing a writer can do to make his books sell is to write them well. Gabriel García Márquez
- For a writer, success is always temporary, it is always failure. Graham Greene
- In the process of writing, imagination and memory become confused. Adelaida Garcia Morales
- 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
- What makes the writing profession lively and exciting is the constant possibility of failure. Patricia Highsmith
- Literature is like the experience of love or a toothache. You have to feel it to know what it is. louis landero
- 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
- How many times do we find readers enthusiastic about works that obviously do not say what they think they understand. Fernando Lazaro Carreter
"A writer who does not write is a monster courting madness." Franz kafka