David Grossman Quotes

• We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Doe, World

  David Grossman (2008). “Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics”, p.44, Macmillan

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• I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Character, Reality

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• I like to do things that frighten me. When I’m afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, ‘I should do it. If I don’t do it, no one will do it for me.

  David Grossman

  Morning, Feelings, Want

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• You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

  David Grossman

  Reality, Nightmare, Cliche

  "David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

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• And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.

  David Grossman

  Long, People, Soul

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• The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.

  David Grossman

  Escritura, Significado, Deseo

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• Escribo, y siento cómo el uso correcto y preciso de las palabras es a veces como el remedio de una enfermedad. Como un artilugio para purificar el aire, inspiro y exhalo las turbiedades y manipulaciones de los canallas lingüísticos y los violadores del lenguaje de todos los matices y colores. Escribo y siento cómo la ternura y la intimidad que mantengo con el lenguaje, con sus diferentes capas, su erotismo y su humor y su alma, me devuelven la persona que solía ser, yo, antes de que mi yo se nacionalizara y fuera confiscado por el conflicto, por los gobiernos y los ejércitos, por la desesperación y la tragedia.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Army, Government

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• Hoy en día, los datos que relacionan la violencia en los medios de comunicación con la violencia en la sociedad son superiores a los que relacionan el cáncer y el tabaco.

  David Grossman

  Cancer, Media, Data

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