"I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation."

-- Umberto Eco

#Writing Quotes #World Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.”
“Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.”
“You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.”
“The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything”
“If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?”
“You have to lose yourself to find yourself.”

Source : Interview with Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 1998.
“I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon, which is only a hole surrounded by steel - can be based only on what one does not have; and that ultimately one can write only to fill a void or at the least to situate, in relation to the most lucid part of ourselves, the place where this incommensurable abyss yawns within us.”

Source : Michel Leiris, Richard Howard (1992). “Manhood: A Journey from Childhood Into the Fierce Order of Virility”, p.105, University of Chicago Press
“That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt

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