Famous quotes containing the words assign, subsequent and/or drive:
“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“...I don’t have an inner drive to do as well as anybody else ... I have a great pleasure in writing and part of that is political and part of that is I’m surprised that I’ve done as well as I have. I really am just surprised.”
—Grace Paley (b. 1922)