Quotes by Writing Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well. Bernard-Henri Levy writingbookschool I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book"? I am the kind of person who finds life interesting only if it is translated into writing, if it is parsed into words. Bernard-Henri Levy vacationwritingbook As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of expression. I like to write music which takes its inspiration from poetry, art and nature. I do not care for purely decorative music. Although I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques, I have tried at all times to subjugate them to a larger idea or a grander human feeling. Bernard Herrmann inspirationwritingart During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved. From the lifetime of its founder, Islam was the state, and the identity of religion and government is indelibly stamped on the memories and awareness of the faithful from their own sacred writings, history, and experience. Bernard Lewis governmentwritingmemories Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Bernard Malamud uncertaintyteachwriting I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say. Bernard Malamud threewritingbook The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. Bernard Malamud about-yourselfimportantwriting The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. Bernard Malamud writingideasmoving Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. Bernard Malamud revisionpleasurewriting Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. Bernard Malamud reformwritingideas To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else. Bernard Malamud disciplinewritingcharacter Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are. Bernard Malamud who-you-arewriting You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter. Bernard Malamud sitting-downdown-andwriting Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live. Bernard Malamud ifswriting An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm which could be removed by no medicines, and which was at last succeeded by a perfect palsy of the whole arm. . . . He learned to write with his left hand, which was soon thereafter seized with the same disorder. Bernardino Ramazzini healthwritinghands As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing. Bernardo Bertolucci loyaleditingwriting I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father. Bernardo Bertolucci normalwritingfather I write to breathe life back into memory. Bernice L. McFadden breathewritingmemories Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative Bernice Rubens blessedhomewriting It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is. Bernie Ecclestone writingfootballsports«141142143144145146147148149150151»
