"Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small."

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.”

Source : Gary Paulsen (2014). “The Winter Room”, p.5, Scholastic Inc.

“I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.”

“It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.”

“In my day we simply didn't believe that it was possible to play as well as these young fellows do. We thought that strength denied touch and that you could not consistently hit the ball both long and straight. It's been proven that you can.”

“There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.”

“The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.”

“I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress,”

“Cavall came simply and gave his heart and soul.”