Related quotes
- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
- You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
- Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
- Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.