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Some things can't be changed. They'll always happen the way they were supposed to.
If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.
I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.
Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.
Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!
I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.
Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, you'll reap the same rewards.
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.
I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.
I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.
We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.
No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.
The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.
But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.
I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.
I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.
Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.
I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!
Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.
Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.
Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.
and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.
I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.