Basic Quote by Gao Xingjian Download Open image “Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.” — Gao Xingjian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Basic Freedom Prerequisite Writing
There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want.… — Natalie Copy Share Image
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want. — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Since I was a teenager, I had wanted to come to the United States to establish my name as a writer and to establish… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Freedom requires that you discover your own inner language - your own life rules - your own vision. — Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen 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… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
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
It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve… — Kurt Schrader Copy Share Image
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I think it's impossible to maintain a good, strong, muscular physique without taking some supplements. Between the protein shakes and the multivitamins that I… — Joseph Gatt Copy Share Image
The Icesave matter is complex and it is understandable that the issue has been oversimplified by many. Unfortunately some of the basic facts of… — Johanna Siguroardottir Copy Share Image
