Who can think of Larkin now without considering his fondness for the buttocks of schoolgirls and paranoid hatred of blacks … Or Eric Gill’s copulations with more or less every member of his family, including the dog? Proust had rats tortured, and donated his family furniture to brothels; Dickens walled up his wife and kept her from her children; Lillian Hellman lied. While Sartre lived with his mother, Simone de Beauvoir pimped babes for him; he envied Camus, before trashing him. John Cheever loitered in toilets, nostrils aflare, before returning to his wife. P.G. Wodehouse made broadcasts for the Nazis; Mailer stabbed his second wife. Two of Ted Hughes’s lovers had killed themselves. And as for Styron, Salinger, Saroyan … Literature was a killing field; no decent person had ever picked up a pen. . Hanif Kureishi
Great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.if you read this after I am deadit means I made it.
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Charles Bukowski
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
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George R.r. Martin
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her...
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Anne Lamott
If you wish to be a writer, write.
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Epictetus
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Hanif Kureishi
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it anything more than that is advertising.
You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.
If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary...
People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.
But you're beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want."" Hey, what about the ugly ones?"" The ugly ones." She poked her tongue out. "It's their fault if their ugly. They're to be blamed, not pitied.
