Enrique Vila-Matas famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.
-- Enrique Vila-Matas

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It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.
-- Enrique Vila-Matas

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I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.
-- Enrique Vila-Matas

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I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"
Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

Enrique Vila-Matas famous quotes

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