“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
“...if he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody else, any more than a woman can have a baby by watching some other woman have one. It is a genital process, and all of its stages are intra-abdominal;”
“A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.”
“Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of “writing as a form of prayer”: he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life.”
“Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?”