Writing

“What I wanted in coming to Belleville is to spend less time behind the typewriter and more time on my boat.”

“I was writing code entirely by hand on pieces of paper.”

“This, and whatsoever I myself observed, after attaining years of discretion, for thirty or forty years, I laid up in the strong box (of my memory), and that I have written.”

“Writing is a renaming of the world.”

“I am writing these words from a prison cell.”

“If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. It's that simple.”

“Scrisul este şi el un talent cultivat cu educaţia, ca şi toate celelalte talente.”

“To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.”

“I have rarely written in the same room with anyone.”

““Precision, economy of statement, logic employed to ends that are disinterested, drawing and identifying, liberate ... the imagination.””

“It would be great to have a year or two where I went, ‘I’ve got nothing to say.’”

“« commence mon récit qui sera tout à la gloire de Dieu et au bien du patriarcat syrien d'Antioche. »”

“We cannot cease to say what we have seen and heard.”

“I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write.”

“I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity.”

“Mon carnet, c’est une manière de prévoir les problèmes.”

“The only reason to write about a life in showbusiness is to point out the absurdity of it all, because very little is consequential.”

“I don't set out to play real people; what usually motivates me is the quality of the writing.”