Martha Gellhorn Quotes about Writing

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You have to stop living in order to write.

You have to stop living in order to write.

Writing, Order

Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

Martha Gellhorn

Writing, Blood, Bottles

If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.

Martha Gellhorn

Depressing, Lonely, Writing

Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it

Martha Gellhorn

War, Writing, Should

I didn't write. I just wandered about.

Martha Gellhorn

Writing

Martha Gellhorn Quotes about Writing

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