"If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion."

-- Lydia Davis

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes

“It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.”
“Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.”
“You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.”
“Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.”
“I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.”
“I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Jun 23, 2011
“It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.”

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