Barletto Ballrooms Quotes

#1. To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something that's not there, takes one who is a visionary.

Wes Adamson

#2. If I ever teach writing again, I'd say the first lesson is to listen.

Horton Foote

#3. To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's web, you will want to know every thread ... Pleasures no longer come to you, but there are pickings to be had if you can learn to scavenge for them" ("The Body")

Hanif Kureishi

#4. My husband would say my signature dish is pasta with a tin of tuna plonked on top. So, no. Although I make a good bangers and mash. I have been known to stick cocktail umbrellas in it, take a photo and send it to James upstairs with a text saying, 'Your food's ready'.

Joanna Page

#5. I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today's society, there's so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can't you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?

Nicky Wire

#6. My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

Jan Karon

#7. She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

Mark Twain

#8. He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

Margaret Atwood

#9. ... I'm not fixable.

Samantha Towle

#10. You can always tell who a writer subconsciously/consciously dislikes/hates/discriminates against in real life based on who they don't write about more than who they do.

Ash Gray

#11. When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything
clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

Kevin Henkes

#12. The opposite of a problem would likely be the correct solution.

Joey Lawsin

#13. I forget sometimes what laughter can do.

Ken Kesey