Books Quote by Brendan Behan Download Open image “An author's first duty is to let down his country.” — Brendan Behan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Country Duty Firsts Let down Patriotism Responsibility
A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first. — Mark Twain 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
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“It's a queer world, God knows, but the best we have to be going on with.” — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
I saw a notice which said, 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've just started. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
