V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.
V. S. Pritchett
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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
Vijender Singh
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick
About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
W. Bruce Cameron
When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
Ted Allen
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Irwin Shaw
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
J. M. Coetzee
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Irwin Shaw
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
Taslima Nasrin
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
Dana Spiotta
Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
Dan Brown
I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
Zara Cox
