Milan Kundera | "But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"

"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Authorship, Writing, Self, Expression, Truth

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"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"

"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."

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Personal Development

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."

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"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"

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Personal Development

"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."

Author Name

Personal Development

"He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library."

Philosophy

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

Actor

"He took her in his arms and lifted her up. She looked at him and he noticed only now that her eyes were full of tears. He pressed her to him. She understood that he loved her and this suddenly filled her with sadness. She felt sad that he loved her so much, and she felt like crying."

Love

"A person's destiny often ends before his death."

Fate

"The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish."

Time

"Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten."

Dreams

"Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us."

Fate

"I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be."

Identity

"(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations."

Spiritual

"Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding."

Writing

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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."

Author Name

Personal Development

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."

Author Name

Personal Development

"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"

Author Name

Personal Development

"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."

Author Name

Personal Development

More

"He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library."

Philosophy

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

Actor

"He took her in his arms and lifted her up. She looked at him and he noticed only now that her eyes were full of tears. He pressed her to him. She understood that he loved her and this suddenly filled her with sadness. She felt sad that he loved her so much, and she felt like crying."

Love

"A person's destiny often ends before his death."

Fate

"The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish."

Time

Dreams

"Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us."

Fate

"I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be."

Identity

"(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations."

Spiritual

"Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding."

Writing