Quotes 201 till 220 of 542.
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I'm not sure that it's the responsibility of a writer to give answers, especially to questions that have no answers.
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I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
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I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
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If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'' is worth any number of old ladies.
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If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
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If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's going to stop them.
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If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
Source: What I Think: Essays on Economics, Politics, and Life (1998) -
If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them .
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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
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