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My husband is my most valuable resource.
I loved horses and horse books as a child.
The more you live, the better writer you are.
Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.
Every war has turning points and every person too.
After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.
Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.
I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.
Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.
Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.
I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.
Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.
Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.
I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.
Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.
I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.
In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.
I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?
I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.
I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.
The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break
This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.
The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.
I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.
I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.
I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.
If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.
I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.
Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.
I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.
I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.
I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.
I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?
I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.
Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.
I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place.
Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.
I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.