Writing Quotes
Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.
I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.
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And speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I’m puzzled by the difference b
If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.
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He loved words, and he would admit that he was playing with them all the time. He was obsessive about the rhythm of the sentence, and would add a word, subtract a word. [about Truman Capote]
It is not enough for the hand to touch a book and turn its pages. The pages of a book must touch the heart.
I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.
The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.
Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.
We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.
To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.
Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...
He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.
People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.
By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.
Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!
To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.
Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -
Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.
Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.
The man is in his work, read it if you want to know about him.
You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.
I wouldn't go back to ashes or dustWords gave me life and in them I will surrenderFrom words to words..
A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create.
But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.