Quotes 401 till 420 of 555.
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The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.
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The street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
Man, the poets down here don't write nothin' at all,
They just stand back and let it all beSource: Born To Run (1975) Jungleland -
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
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The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
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The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
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The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
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The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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