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Writer Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with…
- A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
- A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship.…
- Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
- If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
- It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not…
- In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that…
- God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.
- The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe…
- A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have…
- A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even…
- What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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