#rites

We believe that Almighty God has sent us Adolf Hitler so that he may rid Germany of the hypocrites and Pharisees. ↗

— Robert Ley

#almighty #almighty god #believe #germany #god

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#certain #experiment #favorites #go #i

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#ancestors #bliss #conjugal #depend #due

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. ↗

— Max Nordau

#burden #dances #feeling #his #idea

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script. ↗

— Edward Norton

#blank page #call #down #i #looks

People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening. ↗

— Charlie Norwood

#average #average person #before #came #certainly

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attachment #concerned #even #fiction #fiction writer

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#about #cannot #choose #live #make

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#being #better #cure #fact #fire

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. ↗

— Anne Rice

#everything #impossible #know #obviously #she