"I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it."

-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Wife Quotes

“Fun. I'm not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I've seen it happen. I've never really given much thought to being cool. I don't really think about it one way or the other.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.”
“A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.”
“We haven't had any more rain since it stopped raining.”
“I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.”
“All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.”
“I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in one way or another.”
“Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?”

Source : Maud Hart Lovelace (2011). “Betsy and the Great World/Betsy's Wedding: Betsy-Tacy Series”, p.22, Harper Collins

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