Quotes About Provocation

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

People always sit there and talk about 'Talking Smack.' They always bring up the incident of 'Talking Smack.' What did I do on there that was so terrible?

I don't really do it on the field, but off the field, I use it to my advantage. I'll talk a lot of smack.

There's a small group of people always watching me to make sure I'm still offending.

Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.

I wanted to learn how to play guitar so I could smash it up and burn it. I was only a little kid, so that was my incentive.

I even do things sometimes just to get the crowd booing me, whether it's smashing someone or doing something deliberately silly. It's been part of my game for a long time now.

You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this.

I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.

The snake will always bite back.

It's so much fun to play the bad girl. Everybody has that little side of them they never really get to get out.

Fuck you, says Iron Maiden.

All right, you conniving little punks, I'll play ball, but I'm going to make up a lot of rules you never heard of. You think I'm cornered and it'll be a soft touch. Well, you won't be playing with a guy who's a hero. You'll be up against a guy with a mind gone rotten and a lust for killing! That's the way I was and that's the way I like it!

Too many times naked women and death walked side by side.

The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers.

What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!" And that one, imagine, smiles and says: "Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done!" And—bang!

This second one, evidently a lefty, socked the administrator on the other ear. In response there was another roll of thunder in the sky, and rain poured down on the wooden roof of the toilet.

Ne serait-ce qu'une ridicule illusion, on est persuadé d'écrire parce qu'on a à dire ce que personne n'a dit...Ecrire , c'est donc le plaisir de contredire, le bonheur d'être seul contre tous, la joie de provoquer ses ennemis et d'irriter ses amis.

Hay ideas que son como un atentado.

The best progressive ideas are those that include a strong enough dose of provocation to make its supporters feel proud of being original, but at the same time attract so many adherents that the risk of being an isolated exception is immediately averted by the noisy approval of the triumphant crowd.

And I wish that the electric current could be shut off from guitars and instead connected to chairs to which I would personally tie all guitarists.

One of the things that drives Trump's popularity is that he sticks it to these people in the media. And people love seeing that.

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?