Cesare Pavese Quotes

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don't keep it all bottled up inside; don't take it all on alone.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

I generally don't like to talk too much about the character unless I feel stuck or in some trouble.

We always trained never to really talk about things and get it off our chests but I think now everybody is more open about it.

I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things all out.

People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

How can you write if you can't cry?

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.

If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

Writing is the painting of the voice.