Famous Quotes
1917 Quotations with Writ.
- 1701. Flannery O'Connor: Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinio ...
- 1702. Flannery O'Connor: I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
- 1703. Flannery O'Connor: When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few so ...
- 1704. John O'Hara: Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do ...
- 1705. Joyce Carol Oates: If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter w ...
- 1706. Joyce Carol Oates: When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itse ...
- 1707. David Ogilvy: Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with m ...
- 1708. David Ogilvy: Claude Hopkins... maintained that nobody with a college education could write an ...
- 1709. David Ogilvy: Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You' ...
- 1710. David Ogilvy: Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've ha ...
- 1711. Ben Okri: Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaf ...
- 1712. Ben Okri: Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range o ...
- 1713. Carl Orff: I am often asked why I nearly always select old material, fairy tales and legend ...
- 1714. Katherine D. Ortega: In the next year or so, my signature will appear on $60 billion of United States ...
- 1715. George Orwell: It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly strugg ...
- 1716. John Osborne: Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamp-post w ...
- 1717. Robert Parker: I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty-six years of my lif ...
- 1718. Robert Parker: I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had ...
- 1719. Robert Parker: I rarely write Spenser: For Hire. The ABC series is based on characters created ...
- 1720. Robert Parker: I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be ...