Quote by Cecil B. Hartley

“Perhaps I can make you understand. Let’s start from the beginning. A man is hired to give advice to the readers of a newspaper.…

— Nathanael West

“Once a man discovers that his obedience is primarily for others’ sake, that every miracle that ever amazed happened because of someone’s obedience somewhere,…

— Geoffrey Wood

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

“Every one knows how absurd it would be to infer from what a man is or does when in a private station, that he…

— John Stuart Mill

“A man who WILLS commands something within himself which renders obedience, or which he believes renders obedience.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a…

— Henry Fielding

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

“Writing amounts to removing a piece of yourself and exposing it to criticism. The bravery of that action alone deserves to be looked on…

— April Khaito

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.”

— George Hammond

“That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest…

— Milton Steinberg

“there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent…

— Charles Dickens