“I know it was a writer.”
When asked who wrote Romeo and Juliet in "Ha'ir", 2005.
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“I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.”
Source: The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
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“I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.”
Paris Review Interview (1990)
Context: I know when it’s the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it’s the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, No. No, I’m finished. Bye. And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.
“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession.”
It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)
Nobel Prize Speech (1954)
Context: No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.