Marcel Proust Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
Hannah Kent -
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
Eamon de Valera -
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher -
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine -
I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
P. J. Harvey -
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben -
When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
Ilana Glazer -
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Samuel Adams -
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
Harold MacMillan
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
Carl Hiaasen -
I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
Rachel Kushner -
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
Albert Einstein -
I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
Albert Einstein -
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
Maya Angelou -
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.
Harlan Stone -
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Virginia Woolf -
The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
Marcel Proust