Quotes by Writing I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me. Antonia Fraser tomorrowwritingideas My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing. Antoniette Costa bigswantwriting No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. Antonin Artaud painworkwriting All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. Antonin Artaud writingpigspeople I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality. Antonin Artaud writingbookreality [Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis. Antonin Artaud brutalitywritingart Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work. Antonin Scalia suggestionsopinionwriting Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second Antonin Sertillanges lightwritingwater I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music. Antonio Banderas caughtreadingwriting If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn't work. You have to come from a sincere place. And you don't think too much. I don't go to the hotel and I start thinking what am I going to say tomorrow and start writing things down. Antonio Banderas writingcharacterthinking I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen. Antonio Damasio mahlercomposerwriting Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line. Antonio Damasio writingrunninghands Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness. Antonio Lobo Antunes readingwritingbook In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it. Antonio Machado writingorderfirsts The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. Antonio Machado sinsoulwriting I can't envisage stopping writing. Antony Beevor stoppingi-canwriting When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television. Antony Beevor winewritingnight It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family. Antony Beevor motherwritingjobs It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards. Antony Beevor writingbookyears I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time. Antony Beevor readingwritingbook«101102103104105106107108109110111»
