Hilma Wolitzer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.
-- Hilma Wolitzer

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The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.
-- Hilma Wolitzer

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There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work being discussed, and criticism has to be useful, not just derogatory or laudatory.
-- Hilma Wolitzer

#Honesty #Teaching #Criticism
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.
-- Hilma Wolitzer

#Lonely #Character #Writing
My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And that's saying something. The feel of them and the smell of them. A bookshop was like like an Aladdin's Cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look.
-- Hilma Wolitzer

#Book #Smell #Clothes
hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.
-- Hilma Wolitzer

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Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.
-- Hilma Wolitzer

#Time #Blood #Pulse
Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history.
-- Hilma Wolitzer

#Book #Loss #Light
The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburgâ€™s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity.
-- Hilma Wolitzer

#Writing #Inward #Looks

Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.
By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)
O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.
Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.
Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.
My dad was so much fun growing up.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Hilma Wolitzer famous quotes

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