Quotes 421 till 440 of 542.
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The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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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 are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.
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There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments.
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There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.
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There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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