Quotes of: Great-writer Keyword

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

Vikas Swarup

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

Cao Yu

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

Daniel Alarcon

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Salman Rushdie

I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

Vikas Swarup

I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and cl...

Fight Club

When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a gr...

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

Tyler Durden: Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us cha...

Fight Club

The great scholar forgets about fame, the average scholar works for it, and the unworthy scholar steals it.

Chinese

The world could have been great if only people had been more useful.

German

[...]How can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?" "Perhaps,"said Apollo, "by being materially great and materially wise and nothing else.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

Crime and Punishment

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and justice is the spirit of God.

Dante's Journey

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics