André Maurois on Writing
Browse 4 quotations attributed to André Maurois, catalogued under writing, with dates where available.
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Attributed to André Maurois, entry #17540: "The old writer, like the old actor, is a master of his craft. Youthfulness of style is no more than a matter of technique."
Attributed to André Maurois, entry #241287: "The aspiring author, whether genius or not, should never let a day pass without writing at least a few lines."
4 Quotes by André Maurois on Writing
"The old writer, like the old actor, is a master of his craft. Youthfulness of style is no more than a matter of technique."
"The aspiring author, whether genius or not, should never let a day pass without writing at least a few lines."
"The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. "The characters crowd onto the page", writes Mauriac, "there to accomplish all those things which the personal destiny of the author has kept at bay."
"The best part of our misfortunes - our moral unhappiness, I mean - comes from the fact that we have words to describe them... We give them body, we even go so far as to give them a body which is not their own, for the words of common language do not always correspond to our sufferings, which may be of a new and distinct sort. … And then, too, words prolong and preserve sorrows that should long have been forgotten. Animal nature forgets...."