49 quotes found
“Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book”
“I grow more and more intrigued by this as I write: how words, even the most carefully chosen, can mean such different things from one person to another, so that others might think about what I writ...”
“Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all...”
“Only mothers will ever know the true struggle and sacrifice it takes to create life. Authors come in at a close second.”
“I feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years.”
“All stories are the sin of their weaver.”
“When I write, my soul sings.”
“If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something...”
“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.”
“A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project...”
“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladiesthough shifting the balance mattersbut that maybe the whole point of reading is to be able to explore and also transcend your gender (and ...”
“The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every authors basic human right”
“He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.”
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
“The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”
“An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.”
“You do not publish your own verses Laelius you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine or else publish your own.”
“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.”
“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in every romance, and that to dazzle the spectator the thought should be new, without ...”
“[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.”
