#writ

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#each #even #infinite #interrupted #night

So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them ↗

— William H. Gass

#writing #beauty

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type. ↗

— John le Carre

#hand #happen #i #type #write

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it? ↗

— Humphrey Carpenter

#baby #believe #came #ceiling #flew

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. ↗

— John le Carre

#experience #his #like #lives #mainstream

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book. ↗

— John le Carre

#book #few #haven #heaven #i

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe. ↗

— Neko Case

#i #i think #little #maybe #might

There are no rules to writing a song. ↗

— Randy Castillo

#song #writing

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#art #away #craft #desire #end

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critical #cut #destroys #dishonest #emotions