"A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life."

-- Ali Smith

#Baby Quotes #Years Quotes #Games Quotes

“There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves.”
“I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.”
“I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.”

Source : "Questions and answers with Miles teller". Interview with Joanna Varikos, www.mtv.com. February 28, 2013.
“I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.”
“To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.”
“I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.”

Source : Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.”
“Only that which is not said is sincere.”

Source : Fernando Tavares Sabino (1967). “A time to meet”, Harvill Press

You may also like:

A.L. Kennedy
Writer
Akhil Sharma
Author
Anne Tyler
Novelist
Jackie Kay
Poet
Joshua Ferris
Author
Marina Warner
Novelist
Muriel Spark
Novelist
Rachel Cusk
Novelist
Zadie Smith
Novelist