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

• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Man
  • Never
  • 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

• I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Work
  • Write
  • Feminine Nature

• What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Trying
  • Done

• One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Night
  • Black
  • Party

• The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • You
  • Day
  • Retirement

• With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Computer
  • March

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

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Write
  • Literacy
  • Illiterates