Andre Gide Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

  Andre Gide

  Writing, Care, Irreplaceable

• It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

  Andre Gide

  Writing, Noble, Literature

  Letter to François Mauriac, 1929.

• The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Writing, Madness

• Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

  Andre Gide

  Writing, Literature, Produce

• Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Cute, Beautiful

• What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

  Andre Gide

  Writing, Literature, Stories

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.46, Lulu Press, Inc

• What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

  Andre Gide

  Change, Being Yourself, Writing

  "Les Nourritures Terrestres". Book by André Gide, 1897.

• Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

  Andre Gide

  Attitude, Book, Writing

• The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

  Andre Gide

  Writing, Thinking, Secret

• If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

  Andre Gide

  Writing, Young Writers, Refrain

• Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

  Andre Gide

  Writing, Generations, Substance

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.145, Routledge

• With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

  Andre Gide

  Book, Writing, Admirer

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