Books Quote by Robert Metcalfe Download Open image “I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.” — Robert Metcalfe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Language Literature Writing
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And… — Barbara Christian Copy Share Image
Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings. — David M. Evans Copy Share Image
I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer. — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as… — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will… — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
