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Elie Wiesel Quotes about Writing

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I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Writing, Understanding, Literature

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.12, Schocken

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Inspirational, Writing, Ifs

I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

Writing, Musical, Needs

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Some stories are true that never happened.

Love, Dream, Writing

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

Book, Writing, Eight

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

Writing, Order, Sculpture

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

Beautiful, Girl, Writing

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2000.

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

Memories, Writing, Hatred

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.8, Schocken

Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship; were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.

Wall, Character, Writing

We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are young, especially young people are taken by this human rights activities. They should organize the universities.

Communication, Taken, Writing

Source: www.savetibet.org

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

Writing, Language Words, Language

Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

Morning, Writing, Up Early

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

Writing, Years, Long

Source: www.savetibet.org

I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.

Teaching, Writing, People

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

Writing, Order, Mad

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.4, Macmillan

Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other verbs and other images. No, that wasn't it either. But what exactly was that it I was searching for? It must have been all that eludes us, hidden behind a veil so as not to be stolen, usurped and trivialized. Words seemed weak and pale.

Writing, Mean, Elude Us

I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

Book, Mean, Writing

Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

Writing, Opposites, Routine

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind?

Book, Writing, Biblical

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.4, Hill and Wang

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

Writing, Reap

Elie Wiesel (2010). “All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs”, p.17, Schocken

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

Memories, Tombstone, Writing

Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.10, Schocken

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