#rites

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#down #enough #guesses #him #i

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#answerable #comes #creative #creative act #eden

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. ↗

— William Hague

#cars #deputy #drive #himself #homes

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. ↗

— Paul Harris

#aid #bad #being #came #course

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. ↗

— Lance Henriksen

#beautiful thing #life #me #passage #rites

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong. ↗

— Bob Hope

#crime #make #only #rites #two

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ↗

— Horace

#art #book #briefly #call #great

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#dedicated #rites #secular #travel

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#himself #i #i write #just #money

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#british #i #i am #only #spanish