“Don't tell me how to write my novel. Don't tell me you've got a better ending for it. I have no time for that.”
Playboy interview (1996)
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Ray Bradbury401
American writer 1920–2012Related quotes
Sarah McLachlan (1968) Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter
Good Enough
Song lyrics, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993)
“Don't tell me! Don't tell me!”
Yolanda King (1955–2007) American actress
Reaction to news of father being shot quoted in Betty Shabazz, Surviving Malcolm X: A Journey of Strength from Wife to Widow to Heroine (2003) by Russell J. Rickford, p. 349
1960s
“I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: New Yorkers love to dupe themselves, as well as doom themselves. I haven’t had to live like that. I’m a California boy. I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Jace to Clary, pg. 324
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“I will never tell you how to vote. If I do, don't listen to me.”
Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont
Snopes.com found no record of Sanders saying those words. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bernie-sanders-told-supporters-hed-never-tell-them-how-to-vote/ May be derived from a statement during an MSNBC town hall in April 2016:<br><br>We are not a movement where I can snap my fingers and say to you or to anybody else what you should do, because you won't listen to me. You shouldn't. You'll make these decisions yourself. <br class="br">Misattributed
“I don't say so, but my spade tells me so.”
B. B. Lal (1921) Indian archaeologist
B.B. Lal's reply to his critics (traditional Hindus). As related and quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2012). The argumentative Hindu. New Delhi : Aditya Prakashan. Chapter: Ayodhya’s three history debates.
In the 1970s, Prof. B.B. Lal's excavation campaign “Archaeology of the Ramayana sites” [Lal 2008:15-28] found a common material culture at Ayodhya, Chitrakuta and other Ramayana sites all datable to a common period. It earned him the wrath of an audience of traditional Hindu godmen, who tend to place the Ramayana events at a far greater time-depth.