George Sand Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

  George Sand

  Life, Inspirational Life, Writing

  "Metella". Ch. 1. Book by George Sand, 1833.

• The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

  George Sand

  Writing, Obsession, Violent

• I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

  George Sand

  Passion, Writing, Tasks

  Letter to Jules Boucoiran, March 4, 1831.

• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

  George Sand

  Queens, Powerful, Writing

  George Sand “Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand”, Library of Alexandria

• The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

  George Sand

  Powerful, Writing, Men

  George Sand (2000). “Indiana”, p.158, OUP Oxford

• You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

  George Sand

  Friendship, Real, Writing

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage

• Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

  George Sand

  Ocean, Writing, Mean

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

• We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.

  George Sand

  Writing, Cutting, Liberty

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.111, Cosimo, Inc.

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