Larry Wall Quotes
For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
Larry Wall
Quotes to Explore
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
Ilan Stavans
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
Foster Friess
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
Rachel Kushner
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
Karen DeCrow
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
La'Porsha Renae
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It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.
Paulo Coelho
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I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.
Elizabeth Meriwether
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If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.
Lynn Swann
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The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
Larry Wall
