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Writing Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not…
- The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.
- The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,…
- The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a…
- To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
- When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult,…
- But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?
- While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together…
- In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it…
- Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1)…
- This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There is good and mediocre writing within every genre. — Margaret Atwood
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden