Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.
My advice is to run while you can.
Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.
Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.
An experience that changes nothing is hardly worth having.
The magnet principle says, 'Like attracts like. ' You'll attract to you the people, circumstances, events, money and resources you need to accomplish your goals.
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.
I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheets”. In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.