“I’m a drinker with writing problems.”
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Writing is a struggle against silence.
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
“What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.
“I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.”
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so you can gain easily what others have labored hard for.