A Quote by Ann Beattie

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

Ann Beattie

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Assume Everything Limits Nobody Off Writer

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Ann Beattie
American - Novelist
Born: September 8, 1947

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits.

Ryan Eggold

Nobody really knows everything, and they can only assume.

Selena Gomez

This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits. Nobody’s comfortable in engaging in a conversation.

Rick Welts

In the cage, you can't say, 'Oh wait, that's off limits.' There's no timeouts, there's no substitutions and there's no saying my knee is off limits. This is a full contact sport.

Carlos Condit

The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred it replaces old prejudices with new one. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

George H. W. Bush

There is nothing that's off limits. If people think something is off limits, I make it my business to go make a joke about it; that's my job.

Anthony Jeselnik

So let me get this straight,” Carter said. “The two guys you liked—one who was dying and one who was off-limits because he’s a god—are now one guy, who isn’t dying and isn’t off-limits. And you’re complaining.

Rick Riordan

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

Donald Glover

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

Jerry Saltz

Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.

Frederick Lenz

One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.

Mike Krzyzewski

Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency

Edward Hirsch

I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to assume I was one, which is rich, I know. I didn't meet a writer until I was nearly an adult, so I had no idea what I'd bet the farm on.

Tim Winton

I've read a lot of classic literature from assorted cultures, and always glad to read more when one comes across my path - but why be embarrassed by the fact that flesh and blood has limits? Nobody's read everything.