Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call literature is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.
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Related if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my... BELL HOOKS ...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one.. JOHN GEDDES There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do... GABRIELLE UNION The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it. ALICE CHILDRESS I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer. ELIZABETH GEORGE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write �... BELL HOOKS The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a clo... VIKAS SWARUP If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as ... JULIAN BARNES Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT From the time I was 6 years old I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer. FANNIE FLAGG I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer ... DANIEL ALARCON The reason I'm a writer is because I'm a writer. The reason I'm going through all these different ge... WALTER MOSLEY Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words... AVIJEET DAS I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally... DINAW MENGESTU A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the sta... NANCY PICKARD Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the dispo... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer. ALBERT CAMUS And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia ... MEGAN MCCAFFERTY 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 I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion... TIM CAHILL If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they sa... ANTHONY HOROWITZ The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending... KIM YOUNG-HA Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we ... JOEL EDGERTON The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO A writer has to have an imagination- that's what makes a writer. She has to be able to put herself i... WYKETHA K PARKMAN All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. SAUL BELLOW I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native... DANA STABENOW When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok. EDDIE HUANG To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a ... DIRK BENEDICT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in... ISABEL ALLENDE I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish. MICHAEL JORDAN The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or h... TANA FRENCH Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA On the outside, America looks like this great melting pot, but on the inside, there's this segre... GURINDER CHADHA I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. HUGH LEONARD The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from... TALCOTT PARSONS Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether ... ALICE MCDERMOTT To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte... LOUISE PENNY At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be publ... WALTER MOSLEY In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the tw... DON DELILLO I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found st... B. J. NOVAK If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows an... ERNEST HEMINGWAY From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody coul... GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid. MALCOLM GLADWELL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media] GERMANY KENT And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written p... COLIN MELOY We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be... DAVID LAGERCRANTZ When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It a... PAULO COELHO It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer. JILL SOLOWAY Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL You can't just take a class in writing and be a good writer. I've always been a writer. JED COHEN Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a ... BUCHI EMECHETA If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. MARIANNE MOORE The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. GERARD DE MARIGNY That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-ba... KURT VONNEGUT All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. SAUL BELLOW You have to be a writer to understand the author MITTA XININDLU I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM. TIFFANY MADISON You really have to love words if you’re going to be a writer, because as a writer, you certainly s... NATALIE BABBITT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to ot... ILAN STAVANS I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An ... JOHN SAYLES The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is ... JOHN UPDIKE A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. WILLIAM FAULKNER One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside th... OTTO PENZLER It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as ... SAM SHEPARD If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done. RAY BRADBURY I did it just because my friend asked me to, ... There was a real lack of black male role-model-type... ORSON SCOTT CARD The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to lo... LOUISE ERDRICH It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack. EDMUND WHITE
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And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga... TONI MORRISON And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we w... TONI MORRISON What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The... TONI MORRISON The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger. TONI MORRISON Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed raven... TONI MORRISON We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. TONI MORRISON ...the change was adjustment without improvement. TONI MORRISON Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic... TONI MORRISON We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don�... TONI MORRISON Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard. TONI COLLETTE I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire. TONI BRAXTON How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. I... TONI SORENSON Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours. TONI SORENSON Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one el... TONI SORENSON All paths eventually lead home. TONI SORENSON It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. ... TONI SORENSON How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you. TONI SORENSON Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places. TONI SORENSON ..And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried TONI BRAXTON I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They&... TONI COLLETTE The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world. TONI COLLETTE Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe... TONI TENNILLE I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to ... TONI COLLETTE I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it c... TONI SERVILLO My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the sa... TONI SORENSON I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White. TONI BRAXTON I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche some... TONI COLLETTE Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it. TONI BRAXTON Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it. 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