Quotes by Writing The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. Alberto Moravia ratiosliteracywriting I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. Alberto Moravia layerscenturywriting When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day. Alberto Moravia inspirationwaitingwriting Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizing—I’m a liar, in fact. That means I’m a novelist, after all. I write about what I know. Alberto Moravia realliarswriting I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality. Alberto Moravia personalitywritingthinking Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when you were a child, by your culture, by the fact that you were born a man or a woman. Destiny is a story that you write. Alberto Villoldo fatewritingchildren When we’re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to become a nightmare. We begin to feel we’re the victims of an unknown and frightening creation that we’re unable to influence, and events seem to control and trap us. The only way to end this dreadful reality is to awaken to the fact that it too is a dream—and then recognize our ability to write a better story, one that the universe will work with us to manifest. Alberto Villoldo dreamwritingreality In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph. Alda Merini momentsflowerwriting Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. Alden Nowlan gonewritingthinking I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land. Aldo Leopold writingmenthinking A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land. Aldo Leopold signatureslandwriting If you want to write, keep cats. Aldous Huxley catwantwriting Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. Aldous Huxley readingwritingbook If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. Aldous Huxley novelistscatwriting I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.' Aldous Huxley ambitionwritingmen To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations. Aldous Huxley inspirationwritingpeople Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. Aldous Huxley individualityliteraturewriting A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. Aldous Huxley readingwritingbook I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write. Aldous Huxley happenswritingideas Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron! Aldous Huxley byronwritingbook«2425262728293031323334»
