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Edward Dahlberg Quotes about Writing

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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Edward Dahlberg
Writing, Agriculture, Farming
Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

Edward Dahlberg
Writing, Painter
Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.

Edward Dahlberg
Writing, Men, Luck

Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

Edward Dahlberg
Wise, Horse, Writing
Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Edward Dahlberg
Writing, Evil, Sin

To write is a humiliation.

Edward Dahlberg
Writing, Humiliation
Edward Dahlberg (1968). “The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality”, New York : Weybright and Talley

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Edward Dahlberg
Art, Writing, People
Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.

Edward Dahlberg
Book, Writing, Scott Fitzgerald
Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.68, U of Minnesota Press

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