We all become what we pretend to be.
Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
A good writer is always a people watcher.
I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.
I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best. . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.
I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i. e. , whether a person is a man or woman, is not relevant at all. What is important is that citizens' confidence in politicians and the politics is strong enough to make politicians proud of their profession.
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.