A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people. — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance. — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written. — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
