Quotes 121 till 140 of 249.
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Let those teach others who themselves excel; I and censure freely, who have written well.
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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Literature exists inside the language. It’s made of words. It’s not made of ideas and it’s not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It’s made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. So, literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016 -
Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.
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lt is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
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Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.
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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.
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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
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My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
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My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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