"Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment."

“My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.”

“Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.”

“To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.”

“What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

“Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.”

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“I think being able to sit in the shoes of a woman and being able to manage products that are mostly sold to women, alongside a lot of female employees, is really helpful because you hold that empathy to the situation. You can understand where the customer is coming from.”

“If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.”