Clarice Lispector Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Long, Answers

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

• No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Rocks, Steel

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

• I write to save someone's life, probably my own

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, My Own

• I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Pigs, Self

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

• I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Way, Lasts

  Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser (2012). “A Breath of Life”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

• I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Long, Madness

  Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser (2012). “A Breath of Life”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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