The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.
Novel writing wrecks homes.
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.