Rima > Rima's Quotes

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series

“She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.”
― Robert Hass

“No sé si soy una persona triste con vocación de alegre, o viceversa, o al revés. Lo que sí sé es que siempre hay algo de tristeza en mis momentos más felices, al igual que siempre hay un poco de alegría en mis peores días.”
― Mario Benedetti