Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Richard Paul Evans

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

Rebecca West

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

Rebecca West

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

Russell Lynes

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

Russell Banks

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

Russell Banks

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Russell Banks

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Roger Babson

The God we worship writes his name upon our faces.

Miguel Syjuco

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Jose Padilha

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

Jonathan Coe

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

Stephen Chow

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Theodor Adorno

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

George Soros

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Jessica Mitford

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

Howard Fineman

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Richard M. Nixon

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Kelsey Grammer

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

Linda Tripp

I can live with myself.

Charles Spurgeon

I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.

Cat Deeley

I can't dance at all by myself.

Bob Saget

Nobody can tell me what I can or can't do, except they can.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself

Tila Tequila

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.

Steven Morrissey

Finally, I can get on with someone