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JUVENAL It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I like to write a lot of satire.
EARL KING There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satir...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
EZRA POUND It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
UNKNOWN I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM To write simply is as difficult as to be good
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult,...
DIRK BENEDICT Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to wri...
EDWARD ST AUBYN I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
YAHOO SERIOUS The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
YAHOO SERIOUS I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can&#...
BO BURNHAM If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about....
CARL HIAASEN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subj...
SAMANTHA HARVEY To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there i...
BEN NICHOLSON People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.
GRAHAM NASH It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
EZRA POUND Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as th...
GRAYDON CARTER Satire is focused bitterness.
LEO ROSTEN Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
T. J. MILLER I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin...
KATE CHRISTENSEN However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as dif...
WIETSE VENEMA I was definitely difficult. I definitely had to be - not pushed into it, but say it's OK to go and w...
MARC ROBERGE Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.
DARIO FO Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablet...
E.D.E.N. SOUTHWORTH The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
ROBERTSON DAVIES It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write...
SUSAN SONTAG There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
ALEXANDER POPE Satire is what closes Saturday night.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Praise undeserv'd is satire in disguise
HENRY BROADHURST Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON I think it was intended as satire.
DINESH D'SOUZA With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficu...
CATHERINE FISHER Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficu...
RAYVON L. BROWNE People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
ROBIN WILLIAMS 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON It is a satire of the first family, so I certainly studied her.
MARCIA GAY HARDEN It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.
JAKE HALPERN Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's...
RAY CHARLES Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
QUINTILIAN Satire is what closes on Saturday night.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
ANGELA CARTER I think the reason that satire is on the rise is because the real news is so bad right now, ... I'd ...
ANDY BOROWITZ You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to wri...
HAKAN NESSER This has a lot of satire in it.
KATHERINE HOUGH It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
DARIO FO It is satire, but it remains in the realm of the real, as opposed to something like 'Dr. Strangelove...
NICOLAS CAGE There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and ...
ISAAC HAYES IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are b...
JOSEPH LANCASTER It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the techniqu...
ERICH AUERBACH A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
G.K. CHESTERTON The critics try to intellectualize my materiel. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that...
ANDY KAUFMAN It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journ...
MAL PEET It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
SUSAN HILL It's meant to be satire, farce.
TORY DOBRIN Difficult things aren't easy, but they're worth it.
MIA LOVE Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and ...
ISAAC HAYES In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it dif...
CALVIN TRILLIN In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it dif...
CALVIN TRILLIN It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they a...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they a...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things...
SENECA It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they a...
SENECA It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they a...
SENECA It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they a...
SENECA It's a satire!
MARC CHERRY It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
JOHN OLIVER Satire is particularly valuable in a country like ours.
DAN RATHER I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
ART BUCHWALD When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form ...
JAMES ALLEN The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending...
KIM YOUNG-HA The music is great and it's a great political satire.
JOY ALLAIN Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
EDWARD YOUNG Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you...
BRUCE ROBINSON The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCK 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]
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