"When one writer tries to silence another, he……" — David Leavitt
"When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself."
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11 Quotes by David Leavitt
David Leavitt has 11 quotes on this site.
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Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at…
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I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that…
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We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands.…
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Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I…
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It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
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Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
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In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as…
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Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what…
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I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because…
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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