David Grossman Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
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I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
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Desire is the essence of a man.
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I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.
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You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.
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If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.
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In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.
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They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
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I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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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.
