Emile M. Cioran Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Writing, Dare

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

• What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Writing, Fifty

• The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Men, Misery

• To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Fall, Writing

• No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Reputation, Immortality

  "A critic of one's own" by Tim Parks, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2003.

• Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Philosopher, Professors

  "Ecartelement (Drawn and Quartered)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1983.

• We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Proportion, Fling

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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