"The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world."

“Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.”

“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”

Source : Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

“I'm not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I'm an interpreter, and I reach people in a different level.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul, and sometimes even in myself.”

Source : Kerry Diamond, Kevyn Aucoin (2004). “Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

“If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.”

“Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.”

“Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.”