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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's only something that I felt compelled to do, and it began to evolve.
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.
I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.
The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.
I am a big advocate of what is known as net neutrality. This means that providers are compelled to transmit content without political or commercial pre-selection.
Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.
We must be reduced again and again to the limit of all resolution and resources and be compelled to feel the need of Another's help and suf?ciency.
Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease
One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.
What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.
I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself
There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.
Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.
I don't really know how strong someone is if they're compelled to a life of violence. Is that strong? No. That's damaged.
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.
Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession requires an unruffled temper.
Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.
The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.
Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.
I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.
There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.
Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.
As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.
I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.
I'm absolutely compelled for NASA to send international astronauts to Mars to find out if Mars ever harbored life.
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.
Nobody should be compelled to respect an ideology that doesn’t respect them.
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential.
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.
Over the last 20 years, everyone who interviews me feels compelled to ask at least one question about 'The Island of Dr. Moreau.'
Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it.
If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.
As a human, I feel extremely compelled to use my platform and my influence in whatever way for the benefit and not just for my sole benefit.