Defend Quote by Gao Xingjian Download Open image “A writer has to fully defend his rights and his own worth.” — Gao Xingjian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defend Own Rights Worth Writer Writing
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every author’s basic human right” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's… — Colette Copy Share Image
“Just as a fighter has to feel that he possesses the right to do physical damage to another man, so a writer has to… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution. The sort of things that are working against him are the concentration of the press in the hands of a few rich men, the grip of monopoly on radio and the films, the unwillingness of the… — George Orwell Copy Share
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize the responsibility… — Javier A. Robayo Copy Share Image
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
“When a man gets to middle age shouldn’t he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay in a mediocre position, become a husband and a father, set up a comfortable home, put money in the bank and add to it every month so there’ll be something for old age and a little… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share
Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people read Greek… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If you're not perfectly conscious of yourself, that self can be tyrannical; in relationship to others, anyone can become a tyrant. That's why no… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Yours is much worse than Eastern! You’ve slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out some folk… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me. — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
Swearing's my release. It's the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity. — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
Having kids is the deal-breaker on shyness! Once you have a baby, you learn to speak up loud and clear to protect them, defend… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to… — Sergei Udaltsov Copy Share Image
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things you can practise to unsettle teams that defend deep. — Didier Deschamps Copy Share Image
For me, I don't have to defend myself that I am not a racist. I won't go in that discussion. — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
