Skip to content

Writing Quote by Tim Parks

Download Open image

““All writing is a sin against speechlessness,’ Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.””

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Writing

More by Tim Parks

“It was to be, and still is, an absolute staple of the Italian railways, whether public or private, that in some way or other,…

Image

“A big gloomy space was piled with bags, boxes, suitcases, parcels, umbrellas. There were a few shelves but no apparent order. Some of the…

Image

“Government and unions have negotiated a minimum service to be maintained during strikes.”

Image

“And when Deirdre Bair went to interview Beckett for the biography the first thing he said was, ‘So you’ve come to demonstrate that it…

Image

“It makes the nation possible and allows it to remain fragmented, allows people to live double lives.”

Image

“Your ticket says via Pordenone,” he told me. “Don’t you read your documento di viaggio?” I was fascinated. What kind of man is it…

Image

Italy is not a country for beginners.

Image

“In America the lack of investment in train travel speaks eloquently of a country always ready to appear righteous but pathologically averse to surrendering…

Image

“It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman…

Image

“Once, when the minibar boy saw me promptly dump my receipt in the ashtray, he warned me that I was legally obliged to retain…

Image

“[T]hese three days of meditation have revealed to me that every thought I think is, in one way or another, an ugly, fatuous form…

Image

“it was through constructing a network of railways across some of Europe’s most arduous terrain that the newly formed Italian nation won a reputation…

Image

Explore all 26 Tim Parks quotes

More Writing quotes

When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad…

Image

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

Image

I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,…

John Flansburgh

Image

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

Image

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much…

Image

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

Image

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

Image

The love religion is all that is written here.

Image

I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that…

Nathan Englander

Image

Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a…

Image

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,…

Image

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.

Image

Browse all 64,237 Writing quotes