top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Writer
"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway."
8
"Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
8
"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do."
8
"Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it."
8
"When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to."
8
"Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion."
8
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
8
"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
8
"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person."
8
"There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on."
8
"To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment."
8
"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"
8
"Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in."
8
"Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn)."
8
"What few rules appear to be in place are all made up."
8
"I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping."
8
"I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves."
8
"There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience."
8
"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."
8
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
8
"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice."
8
"When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before."
8
"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
8
"Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it."
8
"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."
8
"The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean."
8
"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."
8
"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."
8
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
8
"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
8
"Suffering is a misunderstood pain."
8
"I was dying to have a cat. But they wouldn't let me. My mother hated them. Not once in my life have I managed to get something I really wanted. Not once. Can you believe it? You can't understand what it's like to live like that. When you get used to that kind of life--of never having anything you want--then you stop knowing what it is you want."
8
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
8
"Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?"
8
bottom of page