Penny Simkin Quotes

#1. I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Jackie Collins

#2. A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.

Albert Einstein

#3. Exalted by a sentiment of which she was proud, and that overcame all her arrogance, she was reluctant to let a moment of her life go by without occupying it with some remarkable deed.

Stendhal

#4. I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.

Natalia Kills

#5. We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

George Matthew Adams

#6. How do you even speak of, let alone propose regulation of, [any] category [so] full of internal contradictions? . . . Maybe, like so many other things, it is a language problem.

Rebecca Solnit

#7. It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

Patti Smith

#8. I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It's about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.

Shane Filan