Nat Hentoff Quotes

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 books I've written.

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• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Special

• People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Written

• When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Way
  • Written

• I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Love
  • Word
  • Written

• I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Written

• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Think
  • Written

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Written
  • Reader

• The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Written

• I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Alone

• Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Work
  • Way
  • Written

• Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Should
  • Written

• Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten

  

  Daniel Shipley
  • Great
  • Song
  • Written

• What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Black
  • Cool
  • Firsts

• If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Want
  • Written
  • Picks

• If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Written
  • Existed
  • Dostoyevsky

• Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read!

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Should
  • Written
  • Commandments

• When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Rap

• Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • God
  • History
  • Today

• I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Giving
  • Wish
  • Quality

• Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 books I've written.

  

  Nat Hentoff
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