A Quote by Paulo Coelho

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

Paulo Coelho

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Acceptable Form Getting Naked Public Socially Writing

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Paulo Coelho
Brazilian - Novelist
Born: August 24, 1947

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E. L. Doctorow

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

Taiye Selasi

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

Taiye Selasi

Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

Laura Furman

Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

Candy Lightner

Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.

Amy Adams

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Richard Carlson

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

Amy Adams

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

George Carlin

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.

James Fenton

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.