Quotes of: Keller Keyword

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Boris Pasternak

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

John Cheever

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Jeanette Winterson

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Louis L'Amour

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

Mark Haddon

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

Peter Morgan

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

Paul Theroux

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Dr. Seuss

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

V. S. Naipaul

Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.

Indexing

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

The Lightning Thief

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

The Song Is You

The creative act is not pure.

The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

The Taming of the Shrew

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Miller

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

John C. Maxwell

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert M. Pirsig