Adopt Quote by Claire Tomalin Download Open image “Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.” — Claire Tomalin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adopt Appearance Feel Obliged Often Public Some Sort Writers Writing
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Writers jealous of their individual style are obliged to wring the utmost effect from a tiny range of marks – which explains why they… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
At the time I was first writing the stories/essays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people would be… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way. It's also… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.” — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.'… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
As consumers adopt crypto, we hope that they'll also be interested in trading equities and options. — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don't want to get fat or they haven't put in the time to find… — Jaime Pressly Copy Share Image
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
“The best posture you can adopt when pursuing your goals is neither to stand nor sit. The best position is to STANDOUT! Everyone may… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
There are so many kids out there that need to be adopted and need good homes. I definitely want to have my own but… — Lance Bass Copy Share Image
You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it… — John Clute Copy Share Image
