"Are artists and writers the only people entitled……" — Richard Yates

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their… - Richard Yates

"Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?"

— Richard Yates

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42 Quotes by Richard Yates

Richard Yates has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their…
You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet…
He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep…
It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his…
If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!
Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.
Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking…
Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?
I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.
He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to…
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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