Eugene Ionesco Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Writing, People, Answers

  "The Writer's Quotation Book: A Literary Companion". Book by James Charlton, p. 44, 1980.

• A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Travel, Writing, Thinking

• Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Writing, Mediocrity, Dangerous

• We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Memories, Writing, Men

• If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Writing, Thinking, Views

• I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Writing, Theatre, Hated

• Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Drama, Lying, Writing

• The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Writing, Use, Tribes

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin