To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it? — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Smart phones are re-inventing the connections between companies and their customers. — Rich Miner Copy Share Image
I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing! — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
Try as I might, Agatha Christie is unique. The actual writing style can't be exactly the same, so instead of trying to… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
