The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
Julian BarnesTags: writing writers creativity
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
Julian BarnesTags: writing writers creativity
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
Gustave FlaubertTags: writing writers creativity
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.
Julian BarnesTags: writing writers creativity readers
You don’t make art out of good intentions.
Gustave FlaubertTags: art writing writers creativity artists
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
Gustave FlaubertTags: art writing writers creativity artists readers flattery public
Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.
Julian BarnesTags: writing writers creativity
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'?
May SartonTags: gender women writers creativity femininity masculine-feminine
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Julian BarnesTags: art reality poetry writing writers creativity poets
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.
Charles BaudelaireTags: art poetry writing writers fantasy creativity novel irony grotesque
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