Edward Dahlberg Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Agriculture, Farming

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

• Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Art, Writing, People

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

• We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Evil, Sin

• What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Men, Luck

• Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Wise, Horse, Writing

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

• To write is a humiliation.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Humiliation

  Edward Dahlberg (1968). “The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality”, New York : Weybright and Talley

• What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Book, Writing, Scott Fitzgerald

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.68, U of Minnesota Press

• A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Painter

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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