“Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?”
Source: The End of the Affair
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Graham Greene164
English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904–1991Related quotes
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Variant: ... there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.
Source: The Book Thief
“This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.”
William McKeen (1954) American academic
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 11, Making A Beast Of Himself, p. 166
“Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.”
Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist
“The act of writing the book was painful at times, but it was easier than talking to someone.”
Piper Laurie (1932) actress
About writing her memoir. Theodore P. Mahne, "Actress Piper Laurie charms audience, interviewer at Tennessee Williams Festival" (25 March 2012), Times-Picayune at nola.com (New OrleansNet) http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/03/actress_piper_laurie_charms_au.html
“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Is It Possible to Write a Poem?,” p. 111
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”
