Quotes by Writing Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think. Albert Einstein brainwritingthinking I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like. Albert Einstein readingwritinglooks In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy. Albert Einstein creativitycreativewriting The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap Albert Einstein writingscienceknowledge If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being. Albert Einstein romancenovelwriting The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write. Albert Einstein readingwritingbook I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert - I like that. And seeing clients, doing group therapy, writing books. Albert Ellis teachingwritingbook I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that I've poured the best of myself into the poems themselves. Albert Goldbarth writinglongthinking I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing. Albert Goldbarth readingwritingmeaningful It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless. Albert Hammond, Jr. nicewritingsong By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. Albert Maltz lynchingcollegewriting The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought. Albert Pike echoesleavingwriting In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.' Albert Schweitzer tombstonewritingfood In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. Alberto Manguel lightwritingnight Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit. Alberto Manguel dragonsdreamwriting For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end. Alberto Manguel readingwritingbook A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading. Alberto Manguel readingwriting In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art. Alberto Manguel hard-timeswritingart Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine. Alberto Manguel librarysakewriting A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages. Alberto Manguel pageswritingbook«2324252627282930313233»
