Debating Quote by Sally Rooney Download Open image “A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.” — Sally Rooney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Debating Help Honestly People Writer Writing
Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“Having healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - increased perspective, less prejudgment, and looking at things from different angles.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I like Christianity. I'm a fan of Jesus and his whole philosophy but not the social teaching aspects of it, of course. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“I lay there in the bath not thinking, not doing anything. After a few seconds, I heard her open the front door, and then… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who probably enjoyed 'Conversations with Friends' who are part of the system that is actively exploiting other people's… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I try to keep my sentences quite pared back. What I really want to do is observe people's relationships and interactions. I don't want… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone, let me… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“I thought about all the things I had never told Nick about myself, and I started to feel better.” — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“All these people are suffering without the tools to end their own suffering. And we who have the tools refuse to do anything about… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody other than… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I felt that politics was one place where I could possibly have a career in arguing, debating, and getting to write papers. I almost… — Jovan Adepo Copy Share Image
We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating. — Rick Wagoner Copy Share Image
I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman. — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
“Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing. — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
Don't tell me you'll still be in power by then without free elections! Replyting to Nikita Khrushchev's invitation to attend his 90th birthday celebrations… — Richard Nixon Copy Share Image
When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior. — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including… — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
“I don't debate where there is no debate. I'm smart. You're stupid. Debate over.” — J'son M. Lee Copy Share Image
Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems. — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
