Derision Quote by Jamaica Kincaid Download Open image “My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.” — Jamaica Kincaid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Derision Dismissal Mets Writing
My writing did turn out to be quite intact, as it has all my experiences gathered at one place. — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out. — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college.… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry."… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound,… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to have learned from you is how to imprison and murder each other, how to govern badly, and how to take the wealth of our country and place it in Swiss bank accounts? Have you ever wondered why it is that all we seem to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.” — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this year? Yet… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that the Pope is a dangerous, bigoted,… — James Randi Copy Share
Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision. — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share
The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. ... The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
