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You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Jessica Mitford

Stichwörter: writing muck-raking social-action

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

Walter Mosley

Stichwörter: writing

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jacques Derrida

Stichwörter: truth writing censorship language speech

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

John Berger

Stichwörter: life writing self autobiography john-berger

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.

Bill Watterson

Stichwörter: writing

DWIGHT:

Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.

Frank Miller

Stichwörter: writing

She doesn't quite chop his head off.
She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

Frank Miller

Stichwörter: writing

Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind.
If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.

Frank Miller

Stichwörter: writing

Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning?"

"The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you?"

"Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham."

"What age would that be, Toby?"

"Late twenties?"

"Atta boy.

Aaron Sorkin

Stichwörter: writing