#because

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them? ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#everyone #history #how #i #knows

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#collect #fine #hope #i #later

Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#because #become #course #liberty #obligation

Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#already #aware #because #difficulties #done

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#anti-semitism #became #because #book #brother

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#because #else #i #like #many

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#expression #fragmented #lend #live #lives

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#because #both #democracy #did #go

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations. ↗

— Saul Williams

#because #days #defines #ghetto #i

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. ↗

— Saul Williams

#aspire #because #black #criticism #current