Peter Noble > Peter's Quotes

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Homer & Langley

“I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
― Jacques Derrida

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrustive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.”
― Joan Didion

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.”
― Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein