The newer education put stress on culture ... Saturday mornings, the young were brushed and washed, forced into blue cheviot suits, and dragged to children's concerts to learn appreciation. They wriggled, squirmed, counted the light bulbs in the ceiling, dived… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist amasses facts, anecdotes and interviews with top brass. Enough of these add up to a… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours. — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time. — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
The newer education put stress on culture ... Saturday mornings, the young were brushed and washed, forced into blue cheviot suits, and dragged to… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread. — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate,… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
“What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to… — zelda popkin Copy Share Image
Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit. — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
