I don't like to write, but I love to have written

I don't like to write, but I love to have written

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all read more

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they read more

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is read more

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a read more

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.

You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull read more

You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.