“I don’t want to be boring. But that’s not always easy.”
~ John Malkovich, b. 9 December 1953
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Woody Allen (b. December 1): “I’m not afraid of death…”
1 Dec
“I’m not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
~ Woody Allen, b. 1 December 1935
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Jimi Hendrix (b. November 27): “Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens.”
27 Nov
“Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens.”
~ Jimi Hendrix, b. 27 November 1942
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Andrew Carnegie (b. November 25): “I resolved to stop accumulating…”
25 Nov
“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.”
~ Andrew Carnegie, b. 25 November 1835
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Shelby Foote (b. November 17): “Longevity conquers scandal every time.”
17 Nov
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Shelby Foote (born 17 November 1916, died 27 June 2005) was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war.
Quotes on writing
- Longevity conquers scandal every time.
- Most of my inspiration, if that’s the word, came from books themselves.
- I can’t begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.
- Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.
- If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That’s how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
- I think that everything you do helps you to write if you’re a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don’t experience either one of those, you’re being deprived of something.
Roland Barthes (b. November 12): “Language is a skin” & other obsessions
12 Nov
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Roland Barthes (born 12 November 1915, died 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist and critic who influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, anthropology and post-structuralism.
Quotes on language:
- Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
- I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
- Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen to another just for the pleasure of it. I try out new ones. I have far too many pens – I don’t know what to do with all of them! And yet, as soon as I see a new one, I start craving it. I cannot keep myself from buying them.
Neil Young (b. November 12): “I have no other talent…”
12 Nov
“I have no other talent and would be totally out of work if I did anything else.”
~ Neil Young, b. 12 November 1945
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (b. November 11): “Pain and suffering are inevitable.”
11 Nov
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881)
Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. His works include the erotic Crime and Spanking (1866), mental health study The Idiot (1869), and romantic sitcom The Brothers Drinkasmirnoff (1880). He wrote 11 novels, three novellas, and 17 short novels.
Demi Moore (b. November 11): “I don’t like to take my clothes off.”
11 Nov
“I don’t like to take my clothes off.”
~ Demi Moore, b. 11 November 1962
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Neil Gaiman (b. November 10): “You get ideas from being bored” & other quotes on writing
10 Nov
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Neil Gaiman, born 10 November 1960, is an English author who writes short stories, novels, comic books, graphic novels and films. His novels include Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.
Quotes on writing
- Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
- Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
- You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.
- Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.
- Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
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