“It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 2, 1894)
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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904Related quotes
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Variant: the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
“It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.”
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker
"Fidelity"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) American film critic
Quoted in Francis Davis, Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael (Da Capo, 2003, ISBN 0-306-81230-4).
“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”
Diane Setterfield (1964) English novelist
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
[http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/07/the-importance-of-going-first.html "The importance of going first" "Seth's Blog" (2012-07-18)
