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List of Tillie Olsen Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 28 inspiring quotes by Tillie Olsen.

About Tillie Olsen

  • Born: January 14, 1912
  • Died: January 1, 2007
  • Occupation: Writer
    • Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
    Doe Results Occasional
    Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.
    Inspirational Worry Mouths
    Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.
    Commodity Economy Profit
    I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.
    Character Special Literature
    I know that i haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
    Enough Havens Divides
    Not everybody feels religion the same way. some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.
    Women Blood Religion
    The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. we are a species that makes changes.
    Forever Degradation Facts
    There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.
    Hurt Cuss Words Hurt Feelings
    Better immersion than to live untouched.
    Immersion
    Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.
    Doe Granted Used
    Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. we are increased, confirmed in our medium, roused to do our best, by every good writer, every fine achievement. would we want one good writer or fine book less? the sense of writers being pitted against each other is bred primarily by the workings of the commercial marketplace, and by critics lauding one writer at the expense of another while ignoring the existence of nearly all.
    Book Generosity Achievement
    It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
    Meditation Toil Distraction
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