A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
I think with every writer there are two people there.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.
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