“Never ask people about your work.”
Source: The Fountainhead
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Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905–1982Related quotes
Regina E. Dugan (1963) American businesswoman, inventor, and technology developer
Fast Company interview (2011)
“You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.”
P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
As quoted by Valerie Lawson, in an interview: "The Mystic Life of P.L. Travers" (7 May 2003) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/ark/stories/s844311.htm
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Cf. Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (1921), Pt. I : In the Beginning: I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
Books, Brain Droppings (1997)
Variant: Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that shit.
“The time to make up your mind about people, is never.”
Philip Barry The Philadelphia Story
Source: The Philadelphia Story
John Osborne (1929–1994) English playwright
Quoted in Time magazine, October 31, 1977. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,945814,00.html <br class="br">Also attributed to Christopher Hampton by the Sunday Times Magazine (16 October 1977)
Christopher Hampton (1946) British playwright, screenwriter and film director
Sunday Times Magazine (London, October 16, 1977)
“People ask about dictators, "Why?" But dictators themselves ask, "Why not?"”
Garry Kasparov (1963) former chess world champion
As quoted in "Is Putin Popular?" https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/is-putin-popular-c/ (2018), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review <br class="br">2010s
“What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.”
Joan Didion book Play It as It Lays
Source: Play It as It Lays