#rites

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

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

— Lance Henriksen

#beautiful thing #life #me #passage #rites

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

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes. ↗

— John Bolton

#anybody #appears #appreciate #i #know

Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell. ↗

— Truman Capote

#hell #hypocrites #love #beauty

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror. ↗

— William H. Macy

#horror #ironic #king #lot #more

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#know #never #often #poet #really

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#directors #favorites #i #loved #work

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#becomes #collection #create #group #may

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#faux #inappropriate #later #make #occasional