Quotes 341 till 360 of 427.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written 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 writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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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 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 is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.
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There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
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There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bill's scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman.
Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989) -
There's a song called 'My Faith' that's kind of my spiritual song on my record. It's a little bit of my softer side of me, comin' out of left field a little bit.
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There's actually a song called 'Vegas Lights,' which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas, that represented how I felt when I went to the clubs. I felt this weird energy where everybody was having a good time, and it didn't matter. Dancing like nobody's watching. It was kind of beautiful.
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There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.
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There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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