Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
– Daphne du Maurier
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- Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you – Sunday Adelaja
- Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear – Daphne du Maurier
- There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair – Daphne du Maurier
- I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. – Daphne du Maurier
- Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. – Daphne du Maurier
- But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness. – Daphne du Maurier
- I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child. – Daphne du Maurier
- …The fact that it’s black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men. – Daphne du Maurier
- She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment. – Daphne du Maurier
- I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard. – John Wesley
- Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth. – Robert Ludlum
- Neither every rich person is noble nor miser.Neither every poor person is humble nor wicked. – Salsabeel
- I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire. – Michael Romkey
- Woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character nor will. – Otto Weininger
- It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them. – Richelle E Goodrich
- All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. – Mahavira
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it! – Sinclair Lewis
- Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he’d heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound – that’s what he’d heard. – John Irving
- I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn’t go on. – Paulo Coelho
- The call of distinction cannot be heard by the average, neither can the vision of distinction be seen by the eyes of the mediocre. – Onyi Anyado
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- Writers should be heard, not seen. – Ama H Vanniarachchy
- Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack. – Gayle Forman
- I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance. – Guru Nanak
- Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell
- History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation. – Alasdair MacIntyre
- NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY – Terry Pratchett
- Neither wit nor beauty nor riches can conquer misery, only kindness can. – Angelos Michalopoulos
- [If] a man doesn’t have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Neither the devil nor the world, nor even our own evil heart can compel us to sin. It must be by our own consent and will. – Billy Graham
- Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering. – Stephen Richards
- Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. – Virginia Woolf
- Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection. – Henry Fielding
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- I have never read, heard or seen hatred and guilt win a fight. When we walk in the light of forgiveness and love we meet true victory. – Ogwo David Emenike
- I believe that if a seven-year old kid has heard of Naked Lunch and is daring enough to want to read it, he’s old enough to read it. – John Waters
- Without a doubt,I must read,all the booksI’ve read about.See the artworkshung on hooks,that I have only,seen in books. – Lang Leav
- Sometimes we just need to be heard-¦ There are times in life when being heard leads to being healed. – Steve Maraboli
- We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood-”heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant. – Deborah Tannen