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Maurice Blanchot on Reading
Thomas stayed in his room to read. He was sitting with his hands joined over his brow, his thumbs pressing against his hairline, so deep in concentration that he did not make a move when anyone opened...
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Kierkegaard on Walking
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought...
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Samuel Beckett’s Writing Advice
If you must write, you must do it in the face of all opposition. […] Do not spend too much more time on culture & reading, these are traps. When everything conspires to make the thing impossible,...
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Jules Renard on Writing and Originality
It is a fascinating task to disentangle, in a young writer, the influences of the established ones. How hard we work before we help ourselves, quite simply, to our own originality. — Jules Renard,...
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Blaise Pascal on True Philosophers
To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. Blaise Pascal, Pensées Filed under: Literature, Philosophy, Quotations Tagged: 1600s, Blaise Pascal, French Literature
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Saul Bellow on Life and Beauty
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. — Saul Bellow, Herzog Filed under: Literature, Quotations Tagged: 1900s, American Literature, Herzog, Saul Bellow
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Ernest Hemingway on Symbolism
Then there is the other secret. The isn’t any symbolysm [misspelled]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no...
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Cormac McCarthy on Life and Death
If it doesn’t concern life and death, it’s not interesting. — Cormac McCarthy Filed under: Interviews, Literature, Quotations Tagged: 1900s, 2000s, American Literature, Cormac McCarthy
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Spinoza’s Guide to Living Well
An extract from Spinoza's 'On the Improvement of the Understanding'
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Thomas Bernhard on reading Dostoyevsky
Never in my whole life have I read a more engrossing and elemental work, and at the time I had never read such a long one. It had the effect of a powerful drug, and for a time I was totally absorbed by...
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