„Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn’t stifle enough of them.“

— Flannery O’Connor

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„Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.“
— Karl Lagerfeld
„I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.“
— Sylvia Plath
„I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.“
— Terry Pratchett
„We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.“
— Stephen Fry
„I think it is a great day for freedom. I watched the scenes on television last night and again this morning because I felt one ought not only hear about them but see them because you see the joy on people's faces and you see what freedom means to them; it makes you realise that you cannot stifle or suppress people's desire for liberty and so I watched with the same joy as everyone else and I hope that they will be a prelude to the Berlin Wall coming down.“
— Margaret Thatcher