Diletto Self Quotes

#1. Mothering is precarious. You try to do the right thing - you think you have - then wham.

Barbara Delinsky

#2. To sit next to Walter Hill, and to be able to exchange ideas back and forth, and for him to be able to tell you that he likes what you're doing - I don't know. I kind of pinch myself.

Sarah Shahi

#3. It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]

Dante Alighieri

#4. Quickly enough we feel and reckon up what we bear at the hands of others, but we reflect not how much others are bearing from us.

Thomas A Kempis

#5. I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

Lauren Groff

#6. There is always hope. You are never alone.

John W. Quinn

#7. I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

Jimenez Lai

#8. Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.

Nadine Gordimer

#9. To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

Wendell Berry