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“One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.”
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“The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.”
Source : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.210, Clear Press Ltd
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“Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in.”
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“Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen”
Source : FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Oct 16, 2013
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“So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.”
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“I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.”
Source : "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.
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“[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.”
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“When you work with great people, you learn - about film, about clothing, about life, about sex.”