From one piece Banquet speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 7 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
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Because great writers already exist, a writer is driven past what has been done, to where no one can helpTheir words
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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Each book should be a new attempt at something beyond reach, never done before or tried by others and failedTheir words
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed.
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A writer who gains public stature by shedding loneliness often produces worse work, because the work is done aloneTheir words
He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing.
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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
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No writer who knows of great writers who never received the Nobel Prize can accept it other than with humilityTheir words
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility.
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