Community Quote by Pramoedya Ananta Toer Download Open image “Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.” — Pramoedya Ananta Toer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Leader Leadership Writing
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant.… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Not everyone is meant to be a writer," Shyla said. "I do believe, however, that everyone has a story within them to be written.” — Barbara Casey Copy Share Image
“Laut tetap kaya takkan kurang, cuma hati dan budi manusia semakin dangkal dan miskin.” — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“Kalau kemanusiaan tersinggung, semua orang berperasaan dan berpikiran waras ikut tersinggung, kecuali orang gila dan orang yang berjiwa kriminil, biar pun dia sarjana.” — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“Ruapanya orang gunung hanya bercawat setiap hari. Mereka baru berpakaian bila ada tamu atau pada kesempatan-kesempatan terentu.” — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.” — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“Fina bara kurang ajar sama Ngama. Jangan kurang ajar sama Ngama. Hormati suamimu.” — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“. . . Kau terpelajar, Minke, Seorang terpelajar harus juga belajar berlaku adil sudah sejak dalam pikiran, apalagi dalam perbuatan. Itulah memang arti terpelajar itu. . . .” — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“Jadi, sudah di tujuan pertama mereka dikurung dan dijaga. Itu tak lain artinya daripada hilangnya sekian banyak kebebasan mereka.” — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“Masa lalu tak perlu jadi beban, bila tak sudi jadi pembantu.” — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image