107 quotes found
“[she has] stiff person syndrome”
“History doesn't pass the dishes again.”
“I don't listen to my own music at home.”
“I've never been cool - and I don't care.”
“My kids give me the balance to live right.”
“If you aren't rich you should always look useful.”
“Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.”
“When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back.”
“There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love.”
“Surviving makes other peoples tears unbearable. You might drown in them.”
“(on teaching writing) So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?' It's a fair enough question and one I always try to answer well - b...”
“There were things I'd never do again, but then, they'd always seemed right.”
“Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.”
“It is as though the human race is always only waiting for permission to hate.”
“To everyone in the foyer reading the lists, or on the sidewalks waving signs and photos of their families whod disappeared, I said over and over again: Everyone is dead. If they insisted, showing m...”
“When weve decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.”
“...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever.”
“Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.”
“It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.”
“There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.”
“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.”
“One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.”
“I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.”
