Quotes 401 till 420 of 542.
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Speech San Francisco (9 september 1952) -
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.
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The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
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The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
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The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.
The Times They Are A-Changin (1964) -
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
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