The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Interpretation
Writing is an endless process that, despite interruptions, forms a continuous expression of thought.
Elias Canetti suggests that writing is a boundless endeavor, where each session contributes to a greater whole, even if it is paused temporarily. This highlights the idea that all written works are part of an ongoing journey of expression and creativity, implying that every interruption does not sever the flow of thought but rather adds to its depth.
In practice
In a writing workshop, one might say, 'Remember, even if you take a break, your writing is still part of an infinite journey.'
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
People's fates are simplified by their names.
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.
Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.
When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.
The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.
When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.
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