Thursday 5 November 2020

on writing 2

On Writing. 1.Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children.Life is the other way round. David Lodge 2.Childhood is a writer's bank balance .Graham Greene 3.If it reads easy,it was writ hard. Ernest Hemingway 4 I am dying and that whore Emma Bovary will live forever. Gustave Flaubert 5.You write in order to say the things you can't say.It's a cry or a scream or a song. Samuel Beckett 6.What is the use of a book thought Alice "without pictures or conversations" Lewis Carroll. 7 We do not receive wisdom,we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust 8.Travel is the saddest of all pleasures. Paul Theroux. 9 Picasso when asked why he was always to be found on the balcony,painting the same view,replied "Because every moment the light is different,the colours are different,the atmosphere is different". 10 It is no sin to be neurotic Sigmund Freud 11 In solitude man is eaten up by himself,among crowds by the many. Friedrich Nietzche 12.Most people are mediocre,they want to see their mediocrty mirrored in print. Antony Burgess. 13.It was important to note how people looked..If you don't take into account their haircuts,the hang of their pants,their taste in skirts and blouses,their style of driving a car or eating a dinner,your knowledge is incomplete . Saul Bellow 14 Socially I am a cripple. Vladimir Nabokov 15.The worst thing of getting old is feeling young. Oscar Wilde 16 .Nothing can be created without loneliness .I have created a loneliness for myself which nobody can comprehend.It is very difficult to be alone!There are clocks and watches. Pablo Picasso 17.The only way to forget is to remember. Sigmund Freud 18.Work and love are the only ways in which human nature can come close to happiness or at least avoid misery .Sigmund Freud 19. There are no facts only interpretations.Friedrich Nietzsche 20.It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.. Chinese proverb. { Excerpts from A writer's Commonplace book } by Rosemary Freedman

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