#is

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#aims #create #our #perfect #political

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#desperately #identity #inarticulate #organization #political

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#book #i #i do #jewish #recall

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#called #create #establishment #feel #going

There is a kind of mysticism to writing. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#mysticism #writing

What worries me is the professionalism of everything. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#me #professionalism #worries

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#band members #complaint #cuban #grain #his

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#constantly #cultural #fiction #history #i

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#accommodation #airline #articles #bags #beautiful

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#books #coming #disappointing #find #grass