Writing Quotes by Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt

But I never listen to music while I’m writing.

Listening To Music

Writing

Stephen Greenblatt

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Giving

Thinking

Writing

Stephen Greenblatt

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

Office

Special

Writing

Stephen Greenblatt

The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance – and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig – is to understand the nature of the occasion.

Dancing

Successful

Writing

Stephen Greenblatt

There’s a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don’t know if it helps my research, but I get a big kick out of Mark Twain, who wrote “The Diaries of Adam and Eve.” He wrote very funny stuff on them. I sometimes read things that are loosely related to what I’m thinking and writing about.

Saint

Thinking

Writing

Stephen Greenblatt

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

Dancing

Singing

Writing

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Art

Beautiful

Behinds

Believe

Black And White

Body

Book

Broken

Care

Catholic

Copies

Couple

Dancing

Difficult

Dirty

Eruption

Exercise

Falling In Love

Father

Firsts

Force

Ghost

Ginsberg

Giving

House

Howl

Interest

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Knows

Latin

Left Behind

Legacy

Library

Lifetime

Listening To Music

Literature

Long

Matter

Men

Moments

Names

Obstacles

Office

Pain

Passionate

People

Phrases

Play

Pleasure

Poet

Precious Possessions

Psychics

Quests

Reading

Real

Reason

Reflection

Sacred

Saint

School

Silence

Singing

Special

Specialists

Sports

Stories

Successful

Swerve

Talking

Teaching

Thinking

Venice

Volcanoes

Wanted

Warfare

Way

Wife

Wings

World

Would Be

Writing

Years

Writing Quotes by Stephen Greenblatt

But I never listen to music while I’m writing.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance – and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig – is to understand the nature of the occasion.

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

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