Cesare Pavese Quotes about Writing

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

Cesare Pavese

Writing, Poetry, Making Love

Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.51, Transaction Publishers

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Cesare Pavese

Writing, Talking, Two

Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.276, Transaction Publishers

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

Cesare Pavese

Writing, Fire, Ideas

Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.90, Transaction Publishers

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

Cesare Pavese

Writing, Effort, Pages

Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.

Cesare Pavese

Lonely, Writing, Men

Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.101, Transaction Publishers

Cesare Pavese Quotes about Writing

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