Writing Quotes by Elie Wiesel

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

— Elie Wiesel

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

— Elie Wiesel

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

— Elie Wiesel

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

— Elie Wiesel

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

— Elie Wiesel

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness…

— Elie Wiesel

I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's…

— Elie Wiesel

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the…

— Elie Wiesel

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove…

— Elie Wiesel

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and…

— Elie Wiesel

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

— Elie Wiesel

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

— Elie Wiesel

I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love…

— Elie Wiesel

I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque…

— Elie Wiesel

I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with…

— Elie Wiesel

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone:…

— Elie Wiesel

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to…

— Elie Wiesel

We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are…

— Elie Wiesel

Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began…

— Elie Wiesel

Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe…

— Elie Wiesel

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing…

— Elie Wiesel

I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and…

— Elie Wiesel

In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the…

— Elie Wiesel

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine…

— Elie Wiesel

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and…

— Elie Wiesel

I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the…

— Elie Wiesel

You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you…

— Elie Wiesel