Best freedom & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?”

Want Writing War Enough Seems Used Freedom Worst Crime Rivers Sick Mere Worst Things Massacres Emblems

Book:The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

“When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.”

People Thinking Writing Years Speak Freedom Liberty Laughing Laughter Free Speech Freedom To Choose Complete Freedom

Author:John Adams

“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.”

Ifs Writing May America Freedom Liberty Opinion Please Raises Majority Barriers Freedom Of Speech Woe Formidable Liberty Of Speech

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”

Writing Freedom Perfect Bounds Policemen Writer's Block

Book:Bluebeard: A Novel

Source: Bluebeard: A Novel

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

Knows Writing Truth Freedom Sentences Writing Advice Truest Moveable Feast

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

Ifs Writing Mind Reading Women Freedom Library Feminist Gates Locks 4th Of July Bolts Of My Mind Lock Up

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.”

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Author:John Adams

“I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.”

Men Writing Young Freedom Week Students Young Man Pseudonyms

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.”

Writing Has Beens Moments Stories Hands Realizing Freedom Pens

Author:Bill Moyers

“Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.”

Writing Freedom Wrong Words

Author:Patti Smith

“To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.”

Thinking Men Writing Able Certain Freedom Consequence Civil Rights

Author:Ernest Renan

“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”

Writing Action Freedom Rights Effects Citizens Speech Threat Isolation Thrive Freedom Of Speech Disrespect Cumulative

Book:It is what I think, 1947-1948

Source: It is what I think, 1947-1948

“Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.”

People Writing Mean Government Speak Freedom Views Liberty Speech Censorship Freedom Of Speech

Author:Hugo Black

“If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.”

People Ifs Men Want Writing Mind Helping Able Freedom Helping Others Cautious Make Up Your Mind Carefulness

Book:Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing

Source: Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing

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