Donald McKay Quotes

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.

Donald McKay

Quotes to Explore

Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

C. V. Raman
- World
- Work
- Friend
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Edmund White
- Experience
- Book
- Man
One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

Orison Swett Marden
- Country
- Greatest
- Grit
I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

Eartha Kitt
- People
- Time
- Fun
I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.

Inbee Park
- Think
- Attention
- Win
Writers should provoke disagreement.

V. S. Naipaul
- Should
- Disagreement