Alberto Moravia Quotes


"When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day."
- Alberto Moravia
(Related: Trust, Work, Inspiration, Day, Waiting)

"Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand."
- Alberto Moravia
(Related: Composers, Trying, Writers)

"In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be."
- Alberto Moravia
(Related: Life, Experience, Choices, May, Problems, Result)