top of page
Life Quotes


"Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will."


"I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press."



"I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that."



"Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you."


"I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person."


"I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life."
Life,


"I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment."



"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."


"It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out."


"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."


"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal."


"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."


"While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students."


"I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness."
Life,



"I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you."


"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."


"When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life."


"Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up."


"Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life."


"This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire."


"The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life."


"I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life."
Life,


"You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one."


"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues."


"We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them."
bottom of page