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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not. Patricia Highsmith

Life Nature Justice Cares Neither Nor Done Ever

I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage. Patrick deWitt

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. Paul Theroux

Friendship Exploitation Weakness Mutual About Failings Also Liking Person Help

A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road. Paul Theroux

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. Paulo Coelho

Art Religion Science Whatever Think Our Tried Classical Most Answer Am Question Want Who Who Am I Works Including

You should treat a muse like a fairy. Paulo Coelho

You Treat Like Fairy Should Muse

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing. Paulo Coelho

Me Crazy People Writing Impossible Parents Young Living Locked Would Mental Write Never Institution Make Said Wanted Then

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive. Paulo Coelho

Good You Haters About More Constructive Attack Write Feed Feel Losers Comments Intelligent Article Anything Frustrated Aspect Use

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing. Paulo Coelho

Happiness Happy World Remember Objective Part Since Like Principal Course Felt Am Doing Quest Done Ever

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. Paulo Coelho

Death Me Book School Thought Parents First Starve Took Follow Write Writer Because Go Years Encouraged Child Going Career

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer. Paulo Coelho

Book Difficult Computer Read Very Your

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. Pearl S. Buck

Communication Must Self-Expression Pass Fulfillment

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. Pearl S. Buck

Life Our Way Fails Child American Us American Way

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. Pearl S. Buck

Before Neglect Neglected Born He Begins Child Wanted Planned Therefore

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. Peter Abrahams

Dreams Myself World Books Born Shakespeare Poetry Self Self-Consciousness New Know Terms New World Standards Consciousness Desired Desires Set

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. Peter De Vries

Worst Celibacy Form

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. Peter De Vries

Love Paperwork Writer Being Stand

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. Peter De Vries

Good Soul Confession Sense Rather Only Remedy Than Coat

For me, the passing of time has provided me with subjects I never had before. Subjects I can now look at from a historical perspective. Like the anti-communist era in America. I lived through that. I was a boy; I didn't find a way to write about it until many years later. The same with the Vietnam War. Philip Roth

War Time Me Perspective Before Later Way Find About Through Write Never Had Like Look Until Boy Era Passing Years Provided Subjects Historical America Same Vietnam Vietnam War Many Lived Now

I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout. Philip Roth

That's what you're looking for as a writer when you're working. You're looking for your own freedom. To lose your inhibition to delve deep into your memory and experiences and life and then to find the prose that will persuade the reader. Philip Roth

Life Freedom You Memory Will Looking Lose Own Find Writer Prose Reader Experiences Then Persuade Working Your Inhibition Deep

There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform. Rachel Cusk

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