Haruki Murakami quote: “I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel”

“O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

O Do Not Love Too Long http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1549/
In The Seven Woods (1904)
Context: Sweetheart, do not love too long:
I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.
All through the years of our youth
Neither could have known
Their own thought from the other's
We were so much at one.
But O, in a minute she changed--
O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.

“I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

O Do Not Love Too Long http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1549/
In The Seven Woods (1904)
Context: Sweetheart, do not love too long:
I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.
All through the years of our youth
Neither could have known
Their own thought from the other's
We were so much at one.
But O, in a minute she changed--
O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.

“It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought.
And then I did.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office

“If you don't like this, I'll stop writing music.”

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) Italian composer

Se questa non piace, non voglio più scrivere di musica.
Quoted in: Michael Talbot (1978) Vivaldi, p. 90
An ironic note written upon an aria score of his opera Orlando Furioso (1727).

“Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“Writing a novel is not very difficult: you simply write ten pages a day for a month and then you have a novel.”

Henri Peyre (1901–1988) American linguist

Henri Peyre, at Yale, as quoted in Graham, Garrett, The Writer's Voice: Conversations with Contemporary Writers (1973), p. 272

“I'll never write another novel on an electric typewriter. I'd rather use a sharp stick and a little pile of dogshit.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel”

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