Quotes of: Keller Keyword

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.

Winston Graham

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

Cheryl Strayed

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

Naomi Wolf

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Captain Newman, M. D

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

The Commanding Self

If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.

The Dominion of the Dead

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

Betsy-Tacy and Tib

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Dale Carnegie

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Erma Bombeck

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

Sylvia Browne

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Arianna Huffington

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

Audre Lorde

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Bertolt Brecht

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

Caroline Knapp

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Cesare Pavese

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

Chuck Palahniuk

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

Joyce Maynard

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Mary Douglas