BiblioQuotes 6

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

– Thomas Mann

Comments

[JCR]

I agree... I did NaNoWriMo in November and I am still revising Chapter 1 of the novel. I write every day, every chance I get... filling up one Moleskine after another... that's a writer's work, I suppose, no? It is difficult, but I love it.

[J Scott Savage]

Great quote. That's one of those where you go, "Yeah. Wait does that make sense? Okay, yeah." Love your blog too. I've come to gain an even greater respect for illustrators as I've worked with Brandon Dorman on my cover and illustrations.

[Cipriano]

Profound.
I believe it. And, as a [hack] writer, endorse it as experientially true.

[Oba]

I aspire to be called a writer one day. This statement sums up the challenges. It is indeed profound. I love your blog by the way! Fabulous!!

[Murray Abramovitch]

I have for you the other bookend to your Thomas Mann quote. It comes from Samuel Johnson: "What is written without effort is, in general, read without pleasure."

Good writing of any kind, fiction or non-fiction, is a creative act that gives life and immortality to thought; it fixes images and frames concepts.

Good writing must grab hold of the mind even as it seizes the imagination, for even flights of fancy must have their reason.

Good writing provides tone as well as meaning, for timbre is as telling as text.

All considered, why wouldn’t it be difficult?

[Lethe]

This is one of those gems. My favorite Mann novel is actually "The Black Swan". I didn't like Dr. Faust, maybe I was too young. I collect gems like this one by Mann on my site of philosophical quotations.

Thanks for sharing.