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Victor Hugo Quotes about Writing

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

Victor Hugo
Book, Writing, Men

Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

Victor Hugo
Wise, Passion, Writing
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

Victor Hugo
Writing, Fighting, Hands

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

Victor Hugo
Art, Writing, Divine
Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

Victor Hugo
Writing, Play, Tyrants
"Les misérables".

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