Modern Writing Quotes
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Modern Writing Quotes & Sayings
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The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.
— Henry David Thoreau
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
— Walter Raleigh
The people must remain ever vigilant against tyrants masquerading as public servants.
— George Washington
What's known as bleeding-edge technology," sez Lucas. "No proven use, high risk, something only early-adoption addicts feel comfortable with.
— Thomas Pynchon
In hock to the excitements and commercial advantages of rage, the news cruelly ignores the project of consolation.
— Alain De Botton
I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie
— Willie Morris
He allowed us to choreograph the sex scenes.
— Linda Fiorentino
You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.
— Elaine Paige
Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.
— Lawrence Lessig
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
— Janet Fitch
multitude of books is a great evil
— Clay Shirky
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
— Edith Wharton
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
— Boris Pasternak
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
— Henry David Thoreau
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.
— Frank Zappa
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
— Joseph Fiennes
The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't
— Emma Iadanza
Remember The Poem ...
— R.M. Engelhardt
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
— Simon Schama
Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.
— Amanda Lindhout
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities ... it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
— G.K. Chesterton
(the modern writer's aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.
— Sean O'Faolain
Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
— Philip Larkin
Tolerating is the gift from God to women!
— Rainer Maria Rilke