“I find writing frustrating. Words seem inadequate for all emotions. I do not have enough mastery of language to put my feelings to paper. Perhaps the author's duty is not to express his feelings but those of the story or novel.” LifeWritingWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I can't seem to get down to writing. There appears to be no urge. No coherent reason just now.” LifeWritingWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I can't put anything of value down on paper, only a list of dreary, staccato thoughts.” LifeWritingWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I cannot write before I have read more and learnt more from what I read.” LifeWritingWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I wrote in the pursuit of nonsense. What is nonsense? Something that makes no sense, but surely everything makes sense since anything spoken springs from the brain. Within the brain, small though it be, I believe, or I am told, there lies a mechanism association of ideas, so really everything is an association of something which, being so, couldn't be nonsense. It must be 'sense' of some description, but it is in the wrong place.” LifeWritingPhilosophyWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I write in the pursuit of nonsense. What the hell is it? I have caught the human disease – definitions.” LifeWritingPhilosophyWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963