To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable…

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such…

— Fernando Pessoa

“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that’s one of…

— Fernando Pessoa

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

— Lloyd Alexander

“We’ve been so busy with these things we let ourselves think actually mattered, but they don’t. There’s no such thing as the right career,…

— Trevor D. Richardson

Positive thinking isn't ignoring life's problems, it's understanding that Allah can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.

— Omar Suleiman

If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.

— Jack Driscoll

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.”

— Nikki Rosen

Some people write to remember, some people write to forget.

— Needa Muy

“To write, I need to remember, but I write to forget. I drink to forget, then get nostalgic when I’m drunk.”

— Shoshaku Jushaku

“Write like you can forget, write and forget. Hold an entire world in your palm then puff. Pierluigi Cappello”

— Claudia Serrano

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman