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I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary n... GARTH RISK HALLBERG
A married man turns his staffe into a stake. GEORGE HERBERT When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys.
GEORGE ORWELL (1903 - 1950) The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows th...
IMRE KERTESZ I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as suc...
IMRE KERTESZ A book is either autobiography or a novel.
IMRE KERTESZ It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about ...
IMRE KERTESZ Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme examp...
IMRE KERTESZ I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean no...
IMRE KERTESZ I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.
IMRE KERTESZ What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the...
IMRE KERTESZ Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. ...
IMRE KERTESZ When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended l...
IMRE KERTESZ I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, ...
IMRE KERTESZ The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from ...
IMRE KERTESZ The officer is a composite of various Americans who said the same thing. For everyone, it was an imp...
IMRE KERTESZ Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words, a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has...
IMRE KERTESZ
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the ... BRET EASTON ELLIS
Anger turns a man into a beast BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys. GEORGE ORWELL
I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, ... LANA DEL REY
A wise man turns chance into good fortune. THOMAS FULLER A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad ... ANDY WARHOL
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad ... EDWARD ALBEE Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conv...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into th...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems ...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably j...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the door...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy wor...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slo...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to the...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE I think that writing texts, publishing texts, selling texts in a physical book store is one of the i...
ALEXANDER MAMUT
The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them w... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating t... JAMES THURBER
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating t... JAMES THURBER
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a ... GILBERT PARKER
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a ... GILBERT PARKER
Basically it is a very politically incorrect book written by a white man trying to seize his own int... WILLIAM STYRON
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. SAMUEL RICHARDSON
How do you know about the world is real?...How?...
How you don't think that you are locke...
DEYTH BANGER I never get into comparisons. And I don't know his father's game well enough to make a comparison. H...
TOM CREAN
As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer. WALTER CRONKITE A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE
By preparing a garland for a Deity with one's own hand; by grinding sandal paste for the Lord with o... CHANAKYA
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I think it's flat-out a referendum on Arnold and his agenda. I don't think there's any way around th...
SHERRY BEBITCH JEFFE What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
DECIMUS LABERIUS Each man reads his own meaning into New York
MEYER BERGER
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can... JULIANNA BAGGOTT
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. ANDRE MALRAUX
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The mistake would be to think that Bush is a stupid man or somehow not responsible for his own actio...
DANIEL SULLIVAN
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I pu...
JENNY HOLZER
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intellige... ANDRE MAUROIS
Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend HEBREW PROVERB
Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I... TOM WOLFE
Man will find his own structured words,which will transfigure his into immortal.
TOBA BETA
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman ... PETER KREEFT I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
VACLAV KLAUS
I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually bett... STIEG LARSSON
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. JOHN L. MCCLENAHAN Jimmy Carter, as a former Navy man, in opposition against his own state of Georgia ... I think that'...
JAMES BILBRAY
The sin of neglect turns a person into the servant who hid his talent SUNDAY ADELAJA
No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into... DYLAN THOMAS
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ... SIDNEY MADWED
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ... SYDNEY MADWED
I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more. DEYTH BANGER It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing...
BEN MONOPOLI
I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with hi... SAIF ALI KHAN
I'm a man who makes his own decisions and sticks with them; I think there's a lot of integri... BILL GOLDBERG
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. ALBERT CAMUS
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is ...
IRWIN SHAW
By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
BIBLE
I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work. JAMES FREY
I think life is a chain of events. ZARA LARSSON
I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not wha... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
