Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune. - Claire Tomalin

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Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

Claire Tomalin

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

Children, Fortune, Hostages, Love, Vulnerable

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As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.

Long, Monthly, Successful, Tired, Years

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden until the past few years.

Big, Garden, Happens, Life, Past, Years

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

Badly, Behave, People, Writers

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

Autumn, College, Happy, School

Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e. g. , the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.

Helping, Historians, Past, Picture, Two, Use

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Allegra Goodman

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

Forget, Greatness, Masterpieces, Savor, Writing

Christy Turlington

I don't really have an anti-aging strategy. I accept it. It is what it is. I think about how I feel. So to me, yoga and running and doing work that is meaningful to me is the best way to look and feel good. I think happiness and living a life that you feel good in and you don't feel compromised - that all makes a big difference to the way that you look. I don't give a lot of thought to aging.

Aging, Meaningful, Running, Strategy, Yoga

Robertson Davies

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Achievement, Beauty, Old, Time, Today

Dianna Agron

I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L. A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.

Classes, College, Pressure, Saved, School, Teaching

Harvey Fierstein

A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.

Beauty, Joy, Sunrise, Thing, Till