Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.
She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.