“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
You know, 'Peepshow,' in retrospect that seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I'm sure you remember, nobody… — Holly Madison Copy Share Image
My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I went to Jane Fonda for literally everything. During Mermaids, we were staying in the same building, so she was… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering… — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly… — Erez Lieberman Aiden Copy Share Image
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm. — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended. — Gottfried Helnwein Copy Share Image
The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely… — Phil Kay Copy Share Image
So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the… — Jay Rayner Copy Share Image
