Belief Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

I think that's the greatest gift she gave us, this normal upbringing without her fame hanging over our heads. It actually prepared us for…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us…

— Laurie Lee

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It…

— Kate Jacobs

“but it was the commercials that captivated her. She ached for the lives they showed, lives full of bliss, where all problems had sparkling…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that…

— Willa Cather

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

— Alice Walker

She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.

— Henry James

“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,…

— Jane Urquhart

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right…

— Nicholas Sparks

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

— Virginia Woolf

Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever…

— Jason F. Wright