As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.
When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.