"Not to have an audience is a kind…" — Tillie Olsen

"Not to have an audience is a kind of death."

— Tillie Olsen

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15 Quotes by Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all…
I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
Better immersion than to live untouched.
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
Every woman who writes is a survivor.
It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.
Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

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More Audience Quotes

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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out… — Aaliyah
Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,… — Rowan Atkinson
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering… — Paul Auster
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. — Tallulah Bankhead
I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I… — Erykah Badu
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's… — Erykah Badu
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into… — Christian Bale
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,… — Lucille Ball
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap… — Antonio Banderas
I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my… — Tyra Banks

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