So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
Interpretation
The pursuit of knowledge and expression drives creativity.
This quote emphasizes the idea that the act of questioning and seeking answers is a fundamental part of the creative process. Clarice Lispector suggests that the lack of answers fuels her writing, indicating that curiosity and the quest for understanding are essential to artistic expression.
In practice
This quote can be used at a writers' workshop to inspire others about the importance of inquiry in writing.
A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.
The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.
Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grΓ’ce- which is called passion.
I work only with lost and founds.
Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.
Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.
If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.
It is wrong if nearly every time we hear a black or Asian actor portraying their lives they are actually speaking the words of someone who has never experienced their reality. And to effectively silence disabled people from telling their own truth on film or TV is close to criminal and will not help wider society understand their reality.
If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.
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