Renata Adler Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

  Renata Adler

  Writing, Sleep, Phones

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.30, New York Review of Books

• The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  Renata Adler

  Sex, Philosophy, Loneliness

• Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.

  Renata Adler

  Writing, Talking, Next

  Renata Adler (1969). “A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69”

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