Lord Byron Quotes
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
Quotes to Explore
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.
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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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Nothing makes me laugh more than farting.
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
