I hate it. I resent it. I refuse to tell anybody that I am a Medal of Honor recipient. I hate it.
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.
Spain, must we some day tell Filipinas that thou hast no ear for her woes and that if she wishes to be saved she must redeem herself?
To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'
I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.
We have all said things that are offensive when taken out of context. You don't need to tell the public to be repelled. They will tell you they are repelled.
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically.
I can put on 'Revolver' or 'Led Zeppelin II' and then 'Tell the Truth' and there is no quality gap.
When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.
If somebody was to ask me who is the best rookie, I would tell them I was.
I don't speak about rumours every day in the press, because it's not necessary to tell everybody the same answer.
I don't tell Rupert Murdoch who to endorse.
I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.
As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.
