Robert Atkinson Quotes

#1. I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#2. It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Elon Musk

#3. The extra opinions and the extra praise is just a bonus, it's not the main thing. The main thing is how I feel about myself. And I feel really good about myself.

Brandy Norwood

#4. I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

Ian Rankin

#5. You need to suffer to be interesting.

Alyson Hannigan

#6. Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public.

Alain De Botton

#7. In any serious relationship, if you don't gather your partner's opinion before making a decision that impacts you both, you're just storing up trouble for the future.

Cindy Woodsmall

#8. Kids lead a very private life.

Maurice Sendak

#9. You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

Natalie Goldberg

#10. I've come to the conclusion the whole Washington scene represents a diminishment of civilization. Our country's in a free-fall to mediocrity, and Congress is leading the way.

Robert Atkinson

#11. Psychiatry causes so much death.

Kate Millett

#12. Novices in the arts think you have to start with inspiration to write or paint or compose. In fact, you only have to start. Inspiration comes if you continue. Make the commitment to sit still in solitude several hours a day and inevitably your muse will visit.

Erica Jong