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I write very simple and very naked. That's why it wounds. I'm a grey and blue landscape. I rise in a dry fountain and in the cold light.
A Breath of Life
I read what I'd written and thought once again: from what violent chasms is my most intimate intimacy nourished, why does it deny itself so much and flee to the domain of ideas? I feel within me a subterranean violence, a violence that only comes to the surface during the act of writing.
A Breath of Life
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
The Hour of the Star
I write as if to save somebody�s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.
A Breath of Life
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
The Hour of the Star
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
Write drunk; edit sober.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
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