I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes... →
Toni Servillo
The government should not pick up every single bit of healthcare to where literally 60 percent of every dollar is just in your last 60 days of life.... →
Pete Sessions
Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out... →
William K. Sessions
I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
Vikram Seth
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist.... →
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past.... →
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy... →
The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not... →
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
Anya Seton
For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and... →
Diane Setterfield