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  • Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain Robbe-Grillet Quotes , Writing Quotes , Monsters Quotes
  • There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Cheating Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Home Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Years Quotes