Quotes About Controversial Writing

#1. I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative. - Author: Christopher Darden

#2. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. - Author: John F. Kennedy

#3. Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre. - Author: Pete Townshend

#4. The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you. - Author: Donald Trump

#5. When I write I'll sometimes say things which are somewhat controversial - not because I'm seeking out controversy for its own sake, but if I don't have anything to say which is different, why am I bothering to write stuff down in the first place? - Author: Paul Bloom

#6. Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small. - Author: Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

#7. I've got a phone,
answer machine, TV set,
computer, hand grenade
- everything you need
to run a business in
Los Angeles. - Author: Ice-T

#8. A territory is only possessed for a moment in time. - Author: Barbara Kingsolver

#9. It's always a dangerous thing for a writer to resurrect a character. It threatens to undermine the consequences in a story, and minimizes the risks characters take. At the same time, I knew Kelsier's story - in specific - was not yet finished. Readers sensed this. There was more to be told. - Author: Brandon Sanderson

#10. I think when you're really stressed out and can't really face reality ... you shop. - Author: Rachel Zoe

#11. Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read. - Author: Michael Korda

#12. There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible. - Author: George W. Bush

#13. I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians. - Author: Robert Draper

#14. I'm not a person. I'm just 3 mental illnesses stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat. - Author: Unknown

#15. Meant to be together? Are you listening to yourself? This isn't one of your fairy tales, Fallon. This is real life, and in the real world you have to bust your ass for the happy ever after! - Author: Colleen Hoover

#16. My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths. - Author: George Bernard Shaw

#17. The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides ... It's the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you're writing, because the teacher won't like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in. - Author: Seth Godin

#18. We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed. - Author: Billy Graham