"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."

Burden, Culture, Responsibility, Writers

49

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."

Exlpore more Burden quotes

"What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous."

Voltaire, French Writer

Burden, Famous, Name

"Your burdens are perfectly measured and gifted to you according to your resistance."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Burden, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can't directly influence things."

Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Cameroonian Author

Burden, Understanding, Mind, Influence

"When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Burden, Truth, Power, Life, Inspirational

"The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Burden, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"I've been alive a long time, long enough to know that the more baggage you carry in life, the more unstable you'll be, until eventually you get sick of carrying it, and then you just fall down."

Rebecca McNutt, Canadian Author

Burden, Life, Fatigue, Release

"Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Burden, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom, Life

"The burden of disease falls on the poor."

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian Politician

Burden, Disease, Poor

"Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process."

Lawrence Lessig, American Educator

Burden, Now, Obvious

"There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen."

Petrarch, Italian Poet

Burden, Pen

Explore more quotes by Amy Tan

"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."

Bible

"My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of."

Time

"It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success."

Success

"I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese."

Family

"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."

Family

"No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant."

Family

"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."

Writing

"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."

Choice

"She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"

Thought

"You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'"

Creativity