PANTS DOWN!

Quotes about writing, part #2

1. A person who publishes a book will fully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book – nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book – nothing can help him. Edna St. Vincent Millay
2. I’ve always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it’s a bit like fucking — which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don’t do much giggling. Nothing is fun when you have to do it — over and over, again and again…  Hunter S. Thompson.
3. Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? Eugene Ionesco
4. One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die… It’s one of the oldest urges in mankind. It’s a way of stalling death. Carlos Fuentes
5. Just tell the truth, and they’ll accuse you of writing black humor. Charles Willeford
6. As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? Stephen King
7. People who understand everything get no stories. Bertolt Brecht
8. From the interview with Charles Bukowski:

Interviewer: “What is your advice to young writers?”
Bukowski: ”Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
Interviewer: ”What is your advice to older writers?”
Bukowski: ”If you’re still alive, you don’t need any advice.”
Interviewer: ”What is the impulse that makes you create a poem?”
Bukowski: ”What makes you take a shit?” 

The job of the writer isn’t to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers. Jens Porup

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