George Steiner Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

  George Steiner

  Writing, Men, Hands

  George Steiner (2010). “Language and Silence”, p.3, Faber & Faber

• For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport that which is "grave and constant" (Joyce's epithets) in the mystery of our condition.

  George Steiner

  Art, Writing, Musical

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

• My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

  George Steiner

  Teacher, Writing, Hands

• I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.

  George Steiner

  Writing, Mean, Judging

  "Il postino". Interview with Christopher Tayler, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2008.

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