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Writing Quotes by Roland Barthes
- To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little,…
- Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?
- Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
- Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
- The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various…
- Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.
- To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to…
- Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- 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
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- 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
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov