Monday, January 10, 2005
“The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something tricklike about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.”
- Elias Canetti (1905 – 1994), Austrian novelist and philosopher: “The Secret Heart Of The Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments 1973 – 1985”, 1991.
“The camera is a weapon against the tragedy of things, against their disappearing.”
- Wim Wenders (b.1945), German film-maker: reply to a questionnaire, in “The Logic of Images” , 1988, translated 1991, ‘Why do you make films?’
“Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.”
- Thornton Wilder (1897 – 1975), American author: interview in “Writers at Work” (First Series, edited by Malcolm Cowley), 1958.
“Writing is no longer an act of free will for me, it’s a matter of survival. An image surges up inside me, and after a time I begin to feel cornered by it, to feel that I have no choice but to embrace it. A book starts to take shape after a series of such encounters.”
- Paul Auster (b. 1947), American author: interview 1989/90, published in “The Red Notebook”, 1995.
- Elias Canetti (1905 – 1994), Austrian novelist and philosopher: “The Secret Heart Of The Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments 1973 – 1985”, 1991.
“The camera is a weapon against the tragedy of things, against their disappearing.”
- Wim Wenders (b.1945), German film-maker: reply to a questionnaire, in “The Logic of Images” , 1988, translated 1991, ‘Why do you make films?’
“Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.”
- Thornton Wilder (1897 – 1975), American author: interview in “Writers at Work” (First Series, edited by Malcolm Cowley), 1958.
“Writing is no longer an act of free will for me, it’s a matter of survival. An image surges up inside me, and after a time I begin to feel cornered by it, to feel that I have no choice but to embrace it. A book starts to take shape after a series of such encounters.”
- Paul Auster (b. 1947), American author: interview 1989/90, published in “The Red Notebook”, 1995.
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