Author Essayist And Screenwriter Quotes

#1. Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

Adele

#2. When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

Patti Smith

#3. Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

Mason Cooley

#4. If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

Richard Baxter

#5. The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

Dalai Lama XIV

#6. If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.

Mindy Kaling

#7. A smile is the solution to every problem. Even if you don't feel the happiness behind it, a smile will tell life to fuck off because you've got this.

Kathy Coopmans

#8. The state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book
is one of the main reasons I read;
but it doesn't happen every time
or even every other time,
and when it does happen,
I am truly beside myself.

Nora Ephron

#9. Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

Mary Wollstonecraft

#10. I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

Patti Smith

#11. I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.

Louise Nurding

#12. It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

Debra Winger