All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.
I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.
People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.
Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinar...
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
Pain is temporary, it may lead for a year, a day, a month or a year but eventually it will subside but if today I quit I won't be able to stand again.
I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written.
It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.
I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference.
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
I was up for 'Harry Potter' way, way back. But I don't quite fit the bill, I think.
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne.
Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.
