All Quotes

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
‐‐ Benjamin Cohen

A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.
‐‐ David Ignatius

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
‐‐ Sun Ra

A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
‐‐ Max Lerner

A world view is probably an expression of self.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.
‐‐ Ethan Zuckerman

A world where nothing is had for nothing.
‐‐ Arthur Hugh Clough

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
‐‐ Charles C. Mann

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher

A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
‐‐ Jack Klugman

A world without war is not in the cards.
‐‐ Martin Van Creveld

A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.
‐‐ Nick Robinson

A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

A wounded deer leaps the highest.
‐‐ Emily Dickinson

A writer appears in everything that he does. That said, I felt like writing characters with my own name, in fact, provided me with something of a smoke screen.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.
‐‐ Paul Muni

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
‐‐ Antonio Munoz Molina

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
‐‐ S. Ansky

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we control what we want to write about.
‐‐ Horton Foote

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.
‐‐ Philip Roth

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
‐‐ Bernard Malamud

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
‐‐ P. L. Travers

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.
‐‐ Miriam Toews

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
‐‐ E. B. White

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
‐‐ Anton Chekhov

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.
‐‐ J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
‐‐ Marianne Moore

A writer is what I am.
‐‐ Phyllis A. Whitney

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.
‐‐ Ann Cleeves

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
‐‐ Thomas Malthus

A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

A writer needs a life of introspection.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
‐‐ Maurice Blanchot

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
‐‐ Roald Dahl