“If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.”
Mario Vargas Llosa
“The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.”
Vanna Bonta
“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.”
Voltaire
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
Anais Nin
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
Woody Allen
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
Oscar Wilde
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