
“Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.”
Source: Martin Eden (1909), Ch. XXXII
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 136.
“Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.”
Source: Martin Eden (1909), Ch. XXXII
Quoted in The New York Times , December 30, 2008, Onstage, Tackling Ambition and Crime: On Writers.
“Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.”
Introduction to The Golden Man (1980)
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)
Context: You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.
Interview, The Paris Review No. 80, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/730/the-art-of-poetry-no-80-geoffrey-hill
“The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.”
“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
“I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.”