Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
Pat Conroy
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I... →
I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest... →
I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every... →
Paddy Considine
At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell... →
I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I work really hard and have a bit of success, the... →
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable