Quotes About Legacy

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

We love 'Fiddler.' We love 'West Side Story.' I want to be in that club. I want to be in the club that writes the musical that every high school does.

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.

Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who've come before you.

It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my life.

I have followers because of my dad. I get asked about his movies once a week. They want to know how he stays in shape and if he writes the screenplays.

Every team writes its own story.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

YOU HAVE YOUR OWN LIFE TO LIVE, IRIS, AND AT ITS END, THE ONLY OPINION THAT AMOUNTS TO ANYTHING IS THAT WHICH GOD BESTOWS.

Your life story is really about how the hands of history caught you up, played with you, and you with them. History plays for keeps; individuals play for time. When

They did the best they could. Besides I was hardly a stranger. I had known your grandmother. We were like this. She twined her second and third fingers together as if they might strangle each other.

One day he would finish the job of dying he'd begun in childhood/

You have your own life to live, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

But men don't dry up, Melena objected; they can father to the death. Ah, we're slow learners, Nanny countered. But they can't learn at all.