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Quotes by Writer
"A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer."
59
"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants."
58
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
58
"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."
58
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
58
"I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic."
58
"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
57
"Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love."
57
"Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression."
57
"The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants."
56
"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."
56
"You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through."
56
"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."
56
"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?"
56
"We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report."
56
"The shortest distance between two people is a story."
56
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
55
"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
55
"If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy."
55
"We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations."
55
"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,
55
"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."
54
"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"
54
"Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be."
54
"She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape."
54
"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"
54
"The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light."
54
"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
53
"What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be."
53
"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."
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