"Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is."

-- Irvine Welsh

#Writing Quotes #Culture Quotes #Should Quotes

“When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.”
“My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10. My target? All you wack ***** who started rappin'.”
“A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.”

Source : Dawn Powell (2001). “Novels, 1930-1942”
“...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought to teach-nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach-something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work...”
“I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.”

Source : "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.
“You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.”
“The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.”
“You were born to overcome. You are not destined to lose.”

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