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Work Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the…
- A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to…
- Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
- It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
- Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
- I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of…
- If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word…
- One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my…
- Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to…
- The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I…
- The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as…
- When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've…
- The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach