The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
Julian BarnesTag: writing writers creativity
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
Gustave FlaubertTag: 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 BarnesTag: writing writers creativity readers
You don’t make art out of good intentions.
Gustave FlaubertTag: art writing writers creativity artists
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
Gustave FlaubertTag: 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 BarnesTag: 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 SartonTag: gender women writers creativity femininity masculine-feminine
Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer gradually becomes less and less convincing?
Julian BarnesTag: life writers living readers
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Julian BarnesTag: art reality poetry writing writers creativity poets
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
Michel HouellebecqTag: life reality writing writers novels realism
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