Henry Louis Gates Quotes

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

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• Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Past

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Rules
  • Three

• Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Business

• I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Children

• After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Running

• You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Success

• I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Running
  • Paint
  • Drive

• Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Career

• Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Discipline
  • Back

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Exercise

• Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of music, it's easy to get sideways.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Easy

• In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Man

• I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.

  

  James Rollins
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Couple

• You just do the best you can. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get worse the more you do it. It can get better, I think... aspects of it, anyway. I mean, I don't write as much as I used to. But I don't do a lot of things as much as I used to. So that's the natural order of things, too. You're more or less living in the present. You're just trying to get that next song, whatever it is. And not think too much about what happened on the last record, or the record you made 20 years ago, because those are over with. Those are done.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Trying

• In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Why
  • Reality
  • Running

• Your look changes depending on your confidence, and then your beauty changes. When I first came to New York, all the people were saying, 'You look so Asian because you have a different eye shape.' They didn't really understand because they didn't really see that many Asian models.

  

  Liu Wen
  • People
  • Different
  • Confidence

• I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Writing
  • Running
  • Slave