Writing

“I have always been a miner of ore; I have never managed to refine it.”

“Las letras mías ya están escritas en la calle.”

“No me lisonjeo de haber hecho una obra perfecta.”

“I will go anywhere and write with anybody.”

“The conclusion of a poem is the most important part and hardest to write.”

“I am indeed much more proud of his long-continued Friendship, than I should be of the Fame of being thought the Author of any Writings which he himself is capable of producing.”

“we also wrote in Arabic the explanation of the Orthodox Confession”

“Writing a novel is a socially approved way of sitting in a corner and fantasizing.”

“Otherwise, I’m just a guy with a notebook.”

“Escribir me ayuda a curarme y a comprender.”

“Por donde me pareció darle nombre de Historia natural y moral de las Indias, abrazando con este intento ambas cosas.”

“As a writer, my work demands this liberation if I am to see more clearly, to understand more wholly.”

“I never feel that I have to be true to history: I have to be true to my story.”

“I believe there is something that can be passed between writers, between generations—that changes in time but not in essentials.”

“My process is thinking, thinking and thinking -- thinking about my stories for a long time.”

“This time, I was telling my own story instead of creating characters in my head.”

“文以载道，儒者无不能言之。”

“I don’t sit down and write. That’s never been my style.”

“I found it impossible to write in the stanza form.”

““I suppose that every author’s ambition is to get his play produced before a London audience... It has been mine, and I have achieved it.””