"Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time."

“Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.”

“For me, juggling mommyhood and work is a challenge, but each day I learn little tricks to make it all come together.”

“In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.”

“Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?”

Source : Janne Teller, Martin Aitken (2012). “Nothing”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

“I've always love how food preserves a memory.”

“In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city-except for bombing.”

Source : "Rent Control, Myths & Realities: International Evidence of the Effects of Rent Control in Six Countries (The Rise, Fall and Revival of Swedish Rent Control)". Book edited by Milton Friedman,‎ Walter Block, Friedrich A. Von Hayek, Basil Kalymon and‎ Edgar O. Olsen, 1981.

“[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.”

Source : Source: uproxx.com

“At the end of the day, everybody has to take the right decisions for the right reasons.”