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Quotes by Writer
"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread."
79
"The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants."
78
"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants."
78
"Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories."
78
"A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer."
78
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
78
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
77
"I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down."
77
"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it."
76
"You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be."
76
"My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify."
76
"Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression."
76
"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
75
"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice."
Life,
75
"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
74
"The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics."
73
"Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be."
73
"I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet."
73
"I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic."
73
"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
73
"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
73
"Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life."
72
"What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be."
72
"The shortest distance between two people is a story."
72
"Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard."
71
"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"
71
"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
71
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
71
"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."
70
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
70
"Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974."
70
"Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds."
70
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