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RACHEL KUSHNER The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.
MURAD S. SHAH![]()
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE![]()
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
J. K. ROWLING![]()
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can....
J.K. ROWLING![]()
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD![]()
young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI![]()
Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a...
ROBERT FITZGERALD![]()
The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusia...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY![]()
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusias...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI![]()
One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stup...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA![]()
Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous gi...
DODIE SMITH![]()
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY![]()
When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambit...
GAYLE FORMAN![]()
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI![]()
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë![]()
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
TOM HANKS![]()
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD![]()
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS![]()
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
CLIFTON FADIMAN![]()
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
JILLY COOPER![]()
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the ...
STEPHEN COLBERT Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing ...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR. Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing ...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.![]()
If you look at the nature of the crime that has taken place clearly the person responsible for this ...
DAVID COOK I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influ...
DAVID ALMOND I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is...
MARGARET MAHY![]()
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do mos...
JILLY COOPER![]()
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, becaus...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ![]()
It would be a real mistake for us to think that India will ever influence the world through its outs...
DEEPAK CHOPRA I think, weirdly, it almost takes an outsider to be able to - with no cynicism - look at small-town ...
MICHAEL DAVIES Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM![]()
I always think the most important thing for a writer is a deadline, and it's the same with a hou...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it'...
WES BOYD I'm quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of ...
HUGH GRANT To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be to...
GEORGE MULLER The most insidious influence on the young is not violence, drugs, tobacco, drink or sexual perversio...
ERIC ANDERSON![]()
I think with our problems with hopelessness and cynicism that [the solution] ultimately has to come ...
CHELSEA CLINTON![]()
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it'...
GEORGE ALLEN![]()
What this does is create such cynicism and doubt about our whole political system that's it's a dang...
JOHN GLENN I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ...
MICHAEL MOORCOCK![]()
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL....
BRIAN LUMLEY I think everyone in this city should be treated the same, ... I'm going to be treated like everyone ...
BILL ATKINSON![]()
What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay i...
JANE GARDAM Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist w...
JANE GARDAM For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Witho...
JANE GARDAM If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.
JANE GARDAM His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered t...
JANE GARDAM Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years -...
JANE GARDAM I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated...
WAGNER MOURA![]()
Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow inte...
ABHIJIT NASKAR![]()
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a...
ANNE BRONTë As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use o...
RIDLEY PEARSON Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same tim...
TEA OBREHT![]()
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT![]()
Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We t...
EMMA THOMPSON I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of...
JOHN YARMUTH![]()
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HERODOTUS This event is tragic in every way possible. It is tragic for the victim, for the family and for this...
JEFF STEIN![]()
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of w...
JENNIFER DOUDNA![]()
I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret a...
JUSTIN TRUDEAU![]()
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life ...
KEN BURNS![]()
I think that citizens should be skeptical of government power. But I fear it's bled over to cyni...
JAMES COMEY Living for [Iraqis] is more difficult and more dangerous. The driver for Voice of America was shot i...
ELLEN KNICKMEYER That would be great. I think any time the fans and the young players themselves, especially, can get...
JACK LIND![]()
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and lik...
A. J. P. TAYLOR![]()
[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous t...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a ...
DIRK BENEDICT What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA![]()
I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do...
ALAN BALL![]()
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.![]()
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN![]()
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest.
DIETRICH MATESCHITZ Work is one of the most dangerous places for a marriage...
MELINDA WALTERS![]()
I think life is a chain of events.
ZARA LARSSON![]()
For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to m...
TIGER WOODS I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
ALEXANDER PAYNE To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or fri...
BRENDA SONG![]()
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover ...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA![]()
You cannot teach creativity -- how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.
GILBERT GOTTFRIED![]()
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE![]()
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as di...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD![]()
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own, as ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN![]()
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as d...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD He wanted most to be remembered as a down-to-earth man, who just treated every customer fairly, ... ...
GLORIA LEE![]()
As a writer, I was writing for the Jane Wyman Theater, that was an anthology, and The Dick Powell Sh...
AARON SPELLING A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE As a young writer, I learned a lot about grammatical structure from reading plays, from performing t...
JENNIFER HAIGH The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I thi...
JONATHAN COE![]()
Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to l...
SAM BROWNBACK
RACHEL KUSHNER The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.
MURAD S. SHAH
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. ANTHONY TROLLOPE
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. J. K. ROWLING
To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL
I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can.... J.K. ROWLING
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD
young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a... ROBERT FITZGERALD
The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusia... JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusias... JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stup... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous gi... DODIE SMITH
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambit... GAYLE FORMAN
if it doesn't come bursting out of youin spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl... CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism. TOM HANKS
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. CLIFTON FADIMAN
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. JILLY COOPER
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the ... STEPHEN COLBERT Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing ...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR. Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing ...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.
If you look at the nature of the crime that has taken place clearly the person responsible for this ... DAVID COOK I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influ...
DAVID ALMOND I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is...
MARGARET MAHY
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do mos... JILLY COOPER
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, becaus... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
It would be a real mistake for us to think that India will ever influence the world through its outs... DEEPAK CHOPRA I think, weirdly, it almost takes an outsider to be able to - with no cynicism - look at small-town ...
MICHAEL DAVIES Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
I always think the most important thing for a writer is a deadline, and it's the same with a hou... ADRIANA TRIGIANI I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it'...
WES BOYD I'm quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of ...
HUGH GRANT To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be to...
GEORGE MULLER The most insidious influence on the young is not violence, drugs, tobacco, drink or sexual perversio...
ERIC ANDERSON
I think with our problems with hopelessness and cynicism that [the solution] ultimately has to come ... CHELSEA CLINTON
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it'... GEORGE ALLEN
What this does is create such cynicism and doubt about our whole political system that's it's a dang... JOHN GLENN I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ...
MICHAEL MOORCOCK
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL....
BRIAN LUMLEY I think everyone in this city should be treated the same, ... I'm going to be treated like everyone ...
BILL ATKINSON
What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay i...
JANE GARDAM Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist w...
JANE GARDAM For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Witho...
JANE GARDAM If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.
JANE GARDAM His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered t...
JANE GARDAM Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years -...
JANE GARDAM I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated...
WAGNER MOURA
Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow inte... ABHIJIT NASKAR
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a... ANNE BRONTë As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use o...
RIDLEY PEARSON Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same tim...
TEA OBREHT
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT
Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We t... EMMA THOMPSON I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of...
JOHN YARMUTH
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. HERODOTUS This event is tragic in every way possible. It is tragic for the victim, for the family and for this...
JEFF STEIN
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ... WALTER BECKER I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of w...
JENNIFER DOUDNA
I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret a... JUSTIN TRUDEAU
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life ... KEN BURNS
I think that citizens should be skeptical of government power. But I fear it's bled over to cyni... JAMES COMEY Living for [Iraqis] is more difficult and more dangerous. The driver for Voice of America was shot i...
ELLEN KNICKMEYER That would be great. I think any time the fans and the young players themselves, especially, can get...
JACK LIND
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and lik... A. J. P. TAYLOR
[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous t... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a ...
DIRK BENEDICT What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA
I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do... ALAN BALL
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. ... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest.
DIETRICH MATESCHITZ Work is one of the most dangerous places for a marriage...
MELINDA WALTERS
I think life is a chain of events. ZARA LARSSON
For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to m... TIGER WOODS I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
ALEXANDER PAYNE To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or fri...
BRENDA SONG
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover ... MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
You cannot teach creativity -- how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover... MARIO VARGAS LLOSA No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.
GILBERT GOTTFRIED
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as di... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own, as ... SOURCE UNKNOWN
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as d... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD He wanted most to be remembered as a down-to-earth man, who just treated every customer fairly, ... ...
GLORIA LEE
As a writer, I was writing for the Jane Wyman Theater, that was an anthology, and The Dick Powell Sh... AARON SPELLING A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE As a young writer, I learned a lot about grammatical structure from reading plays, from performing t...
JENNIFER HAIGH The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I thi...
JONATHAN COE
Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to l... SAM BROWNBACK
You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebr... 
Every savage can dance. 
I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don&#... 
At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine. 
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of wome... 
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the di... 
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. 
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv... 
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i... 
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. 
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense. 
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You'... 
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriag... 
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying... 
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ... 
My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't re... 
The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is ... 
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating t... 
I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ... 
I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line... 
I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that. 
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a... 
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori... 
A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ... 
I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ... 
Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ... 
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. 
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th... 
Men are creatures with eight hands. 
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. 
When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom... 
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism ... 
I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. 
Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the... 
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ... 
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and... 
I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of... 
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. 
Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end. 
Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen... 
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us. 