top of page
.png){kind=small}
"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."
Standard
Customized
More
"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
Author Name
Personal Development
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When everything was right, something was bound to go wrong. (Jessica)"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Expectation is faith in motion: you expect the things you hope for to happen."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."
Time
"But when she was annoyed with me, she had a cold way of saying "Apparently in answer to almost anything I said, making me feel stupid. "Um, I can't find the can opener. "Apparently. "There's going to be a lunar eclipse tonight. "Apparently. "Look, sparks are coming out of the wall socket. "Apparently."
Communication
"To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone."
Time
"Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, gutteral verbs, and the world "postmodernist."
Criticism
"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."
People
"Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life-a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple-the painter is giving you a secret message. He's telling you that living things don't last-it's all temporary. Death in life. That's why they're called natures mortes. Maybe you don't see it at first with all the beauty and bloom, the little speck of rot. But if you look closer-there it is."
Impermanence
"The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work."
Reading
"On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business."
Business
"What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well-most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid."
Culture
"I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much."
Work
bottom of page