Alberto Moravia Quotes

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

Alberto Moravia

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• In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Write
  • I Can

• I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Think
  • Write
  • Luxury

• I really tend to write in retrospect.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Write
  • Tend
  • Retrospect

• When I write a movie, I write it for me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Interesting
  • Write

• It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Political
  • Courage
  • Write

• If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Work
  • Write

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

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Me
  • Care
  • Write

• I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

  

  Babyface
  • Write
  • Young
  • Falling

• I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Think
  • Like
  • Write

• People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Why
  • Career

• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Write

• I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Audience
  • Broken
  • Write

• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Think
  • Write
  • Difficult

• If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • She
  • Want
  • Technology

• 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

• I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Forever
  • Write
  • Will

• Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Up
  • Family
  • Write

• I start with the joke line and write backward.

  

  Nipsey Russell
  • Write
  • Joke
  • Backward

• Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Body
  • Architecture

• But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

  

  Little Richard
  • Men
  • Money
  • Today

• The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Write
  • Literacy
  • Illiterates