Argument Quote by Colum McCann

The fabric of my life is under my skin; [but] it's definitely not something that comes up in a conscious way when I read…

— Charlize Theron

All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional…

— Anne Sexton

There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had.

— Chris Abani

You get to a point in life where it suddenly occurs to you that you don't need all the things you once thought you…

— Jennifer Lopez

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and…

— Melody Beattie

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living -…

— Henry Miller

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living…

— Haruki Murakami

I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some…

— Kate Christensen

I had been so focused on what to discard, on attacking the unwanted obstacles around me, that I had forgotten to cherish the things…

— Marie Kondo

I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some…

— Autre Ne Veut

Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very superficial…

— William Wegman