I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel... →
Jeffrey Eugenides
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to... →
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way... →
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
No one is happy all his life long.
My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never... →
Jackie Evancho