"Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create."

-- Kim Edwards

#Writing Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Reception Quotes

“Innocence has nothing to dread.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, Phèdre, III. 6, 1922.
“Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.”

Source : "The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom - review" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.
“Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.”
“It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.”
“Southerners can never resist a losing cause.”
“It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.”
“Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.”
“There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.”

Source : Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1819, Delphi Classics

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