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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman

Just like it's not healthy to think overly negative thoughts, exaggeratedly positive thoughts can be equally detrimental. If you overestimate how much of a positive impact a particular change will have on your life, you may end up feeling...

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower. Banksy

“Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.” Isabel Allende

“Personally, I think the "Potter" books have too many adverbs and not enough sex.” Lev Grossman

You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory. Janet Jackson

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. Alfred Hitchcock

There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny. Rick Wakeman

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"When we were small children, we all played dress-up and everybody had a good time. So why stop?" Iris Apfel

The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book. Ashwin Sanghi

“Good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere.” . Helen Gurley Brown

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! Brian Lumley

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. Pat...

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the...