"Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake."

-- Erica Jong

#Mistake Quotes #Vacation Quotes #Made Quotes

“I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the meantime, nobody knows as much about my books as I do. Nobody has the right but me to say which words go into my books or get deleted or edited. When I'm dying, I'll smile, knowing I stood up for my books. If I die with more money, that wouldn't bring a smile to my face. Unless I got better drugs or more delicious-looking nurses.”
“It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but ... in that case he seems naively over-impressed by rather ordinary thought processes.”
“You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.”
“I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.”
“I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me. It makes me weepy... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.”

Source : "Destiny’s daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.
“Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.”
“[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”

Source : Laura Esquivel (2010). “Like Water For Chocolate”, p.104, Random House
“Spin-offs were never really my thing.”

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