Awful Quote by Amitava Kumar Download Open image “Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.” — Amitava Kumar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Awful Censor Most Themselves Writers Writing
It's important not to censor yourself and not to get upset or demoralized when you write bad stuff. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
People can't write whatever they want and get away with it. There is a censor for films and TV, there should be a censor… — Vijayashanti Copy Share Image
Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead… — Norma Fox Mazer Copy Share Image
I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group,… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps,… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?' — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes.… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be… — Declan Shalvey Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
No one with a bad tie is getting my vote. Some Lib Dems wear the most shockingly awful ties. — Freddie Fox Copy Share Image
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
