Someone asked me the other day, 'Do you get upset when people say you are the young Frank Sinatra?' It doesn't upset me. It is a huge compliment, but it is false.
If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price.
I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.
Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion.
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme. " "Bizarre and adorable?" "Just like you. " "With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes" "Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.
I see the canvas and I begin. . . It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.
Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.