top of page
.png){kind=small}
"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."
Standard
Customized
More
"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Children see beauty in everything."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Children are great observers."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
Fool
"The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort."
Childhood
"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."
Life
"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."
Boys
"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."
Nation
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Man
"Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people."
People
"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."
Memory
"I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do."
Life
"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
Nothing
bottom of page