Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  In R. Lehmann et al. Orion I (1945) p. 25

• The most original novelist now writing in English.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Writing, Novelists, Originals

• Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, Writing, People

• [On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Writing, Choices, Kind

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