105 Quotes About Authorship

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

... Şu dünyadaki en yüksek mertebe olan okurluk mertebesi size yetmemeye başlar. İnsan olmak size yetmemeye başlar. Dünya olmak istersiniz.

…Shunsuké hated the preoccupation with modern psychology that judged his casual, offhand remarks or his daily actions as betraying his identity or ideas with better clarity than did his highly polished sentences.

Why I love these wordsThey are mineYou cannot change that You cannot rearrange that Try as you might You cannot take away All that they mean to me

The name Maldoror, suggesting as it does evil, gold, horror, dawn, sadness etc., seems a curious hybrid, but on reading the work its full title, Les Chants de Maldoror par Le Comte de Lautreamont, seems to contain & imply the constant switches in narrative emphasis-the self as a game (je-jeu) & the author as observer, participant & invisible man-as well as being an inevitable & accurate condensation of, or hint at, the contents.

The truth was, I yearned, in a soul-deep way, to be Sarra. To 'feel' that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.