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Octavio Paz Quote: 'Writers, you know, are the beggars ...'

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A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.


Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.
F. Sionil Jose
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You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.


Lorrie Moore
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If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.
Timothy Dalton
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First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.
Milos Forman
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A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
Tea Obreht
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Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.
Martha Gellhorn
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
A. S. Byatt
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I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
John Irving
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.


Park Chan-wook
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As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
Stanley Crouch
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I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.


George R. R. Martin
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If you want to send a message, try Western Union.


Frank Capra
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As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.


Caitlin Moran
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There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
Sharon Olds
I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.
Thomas Keneally
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Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.


Lawrence Kasdan
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
Lafcadio Hearn
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
Abel Ferrara
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The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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