Burden Quote by Amy Tan Download Open image “Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.” — Amy Tan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burden Culture Responsibility Writing
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“There is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world— any place at all.” — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I… — Elena Poniatowska Copy Share Image
We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Lebih baik jadi orang yang TIDAK TERLUPAKAN daripada orang yang MEMBOSANKAN -” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember? — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me. — Seungri Copy Share Image
Trump's enduring appeal is a resource to be harnessed by the Republican Party, not a burden to be jettisoned. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge. — David Blaine Copy Share Image
Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
