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American novelist 1933–2018Related quotes
“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.”
Life Force (1992) Source: [Kakutani, Michiko, 1992-02-07, Books of The Times; Fallout From a Multitude of Liaisons, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/07/books/books-of-the-times-fallout-from-a-multitude-of-liaisons.html, New York Times, 2020-02-12]
“A painter can leave you with nothing left to say. A writer leaves you with everything to say.”
'Georg Christoph Lichtenberg', p. 405
Essays and reviews, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (2007)
“Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker, and so you can stand less and less.”
Pt. 2, Ch. 3 - p.97
Giovanni's Room (1956)
“The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.”
As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126
Context: The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
