Stephen Greenblatt Writing Quotations

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig - is to understand the nature of the occasion.

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig