"I don't think it's possible to write a……" — Alberto Moravia

"I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality."

— Alberto Moravia

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24 Quotes by Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way.…
Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he…
It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free…
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do…
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real…
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather…
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for…

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