Albert Camus Quotes about Writing

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Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but

Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Albert Camus

Wall, Writing, Experience Yourself

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Albert Camus

Writing, Civilization, Purpose

Those who write clearly have readers.

Albert Camus

Writing, Reader, Writers And Writing

I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

Albert Camus

Writing, Stronger, Needs

Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

Albert Camus

Lying, Commitment, Writing

Albert Camus (1960). “Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien”

Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.

Albert Camus

Writing, Needs, Genius

Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

Albert Camus

Writing, Novelists, Philosopher

"Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus)". Book by Albert Camus (Chapter 1: An Absurd Reasoning), 1955.

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

Albert Camus

Writing, Common, Misery