Michel Foucault Quotes

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

Michel Foucault

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• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Home is the nicest word there is.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Home
  • Word
  • Nicest

• My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Book
  • Write
  • Down

• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Good
  • Job
  • Book

• More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.

  

  Ian Wace
  • Kids
  • More
  • Word

• The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Book
  • Reason
  • Pictures

• For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Home
  • Character
  • Book

• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Write
  • Hard
  • Yes

• The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • You
  • Better

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Song
  • Write

• That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Write
  • Crime
  • Conflict

• A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Write
  • Books
  • Publish

• I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Nice

• The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Book
  • Single
  • Philosophy

• I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Write
  • Difficult
  • Finish

• A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

  

  Caroline Gordon
  • World
  • Book
  • Magic

• I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Book
  • Fighting
  • Doubt

• Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Women
  • Why
  • Book

• You work on a play or movie, you have the whole script, so you're constructing a performance based on the bible that you have. In TV, you don't, so to actually invest in that and let that be the exciting part is terrifying and certainly leaves room for mistakes, looking back.

  

  Cory Michael Smith
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Bible

• Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Important
  • Effort
  • Training

• I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Book
  • Write
  • Word