People who make no noise are dangerous.
Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.
Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.
Aristocrats have heirs, the poor have children, and the rest keep dogs.
I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the methods of operating manufactories and trades, and in minutely and unsparingly describing physical sensations. But is not realism, more than it is anything else, an attitude of mind on the part of the writer toward his material, a vague indication of the sympathy and candour with which he accepts, rather than chooses, his theme?