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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.
The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system.
Is my job as a child, even as an adult, is my job to heal the wounds of my parents' childhoods?
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.
the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.
I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.
You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.
The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.
It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.
If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.
The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
I don't believe there can be any bad taste in creating a scene, only badwriting in handling it.
Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.
…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.
I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.
The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.
I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.
Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.
I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.
I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.
When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.
People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.
Sometimes we have so much to say, we cannot say it. Sometimes it's best we do not say goodbyes.
There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.
Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.
Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.
. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.
A lady has every right to defend herself against unsought advances. And creatures of the night.
One of the most enduring friendships in history - dogs and their people, people and their dogs.
So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.