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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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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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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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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Desire is the essence of a man.
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I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express.
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It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
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Alvin wondered if it was true-if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart’s desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.
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I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.
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When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.
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Charan is very mature, and I see myself in him. He also gives equal importance to family, and as an actor, too, he does his job well.
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Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!
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I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.
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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.
