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
-
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.
-
I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
-
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.
-
I really tend to write in retrospect.
-
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
-
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
-
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.
-
The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
-
I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
-
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
-
Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
-
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
-
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
-
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
-
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
-
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
-
I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
-
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
-
Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down.
-
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
-
Nut up and flipped in, than slipped the clip in, mistakin' the bloody victims.
-
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.
