#rites

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #rites




Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.


A. N. Wilson


#feels #oneself #shadow #tolstoy #whether

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.


Jeanette Winterson


#felt #hasn #many #selves #separate

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.


P. G. Wodehouse


#down #drops #every #grade #ladder

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.


Thomas Wolfe


#forget #reader #reads #reason #remember

The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes.


James Wolcott


#been #boon #classic #detail #dvd

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'


Tiger Woods


#changed #compare #even #feeling #get

And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.


Pia Zadora


#conviction #full #his #i #kind

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.


Carlos Ghosn


#chapter #company #different #good #good leader

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.


Andre Gide


#beautiful things #madness #most #most beautiful #prompts

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#down #enough #guesses #him #i