"The last thing that we find in..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
More by Blaise Pascal
“It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.”
“For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those mostremote from it?”
“It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.”
More on Writing
More on Process
“If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.”
“Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.”
“Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.”