Cesare Pavese Quotes

I like writing.

I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

I wanted to write and then I saw Pierrot and I understand that I could express myself in a more... Also probably, I had an intuition that if I was going to only write, I will stay in one room all the time and never go out. I felt that if I was going to make movies, I would have to communicate with people and it would be good for me.

Everything starts with writing.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's not part of the film can. So there's that side of theater that appeals to me, where you give something and the response to what you've created is a communion between you and the dark that contains however many people. It's thrilling not having a reflection other than through the people you're communicating with. But people ask, "What do you prefer?" and I don't have a preference. I love them both. I really do.

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.