David Grossman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.
-- David Grossman

#Writing #Doe #World
I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.
-- David Grossman

#Writing #Character #Reality
I like to do things that frighten me. When Iâ€™m afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, â€˜I should do it. If I donâ€™t do it, no one will do it for me.
-- David Grossman

#Morning #Feelings #Want
The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.
-- David Grossman

#Writing #Mean #Desire
You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when itâ€™s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.
-- David Grossman

#Reality #Nightmare #Cliche
And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.
-- David Grossman

#Long #People #Soul
I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.
-- David Grossman

#Writing #Army #Government
Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.
-- David Grossman

#Cancer #Media #Data

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.
When one door opens, so does another one.
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

David Grossman famous quotes

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