Exclusive Quote by Mona Simpson Download Open image “I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one.” — Mona Simpson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exclusive Had I write Never Relationship Relationships Room Used Want Where Write
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I've learned to allow myself the room to fall in love with what I'm writing. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I have always written - since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored to be… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something amazing about… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship. — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
It's hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to be able… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence?” — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
“A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies.” — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook,… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I remember the excitement of finding a great pancake recipe in 'Gourmet.' It felt as if it were mine. And it was Berkeley, of… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a strange, strange thing. I feel like I've been invited to a very exclusive ball and I'm just trying to make nice… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin. — Thomas de Maiziere Copy Share Image
The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Indian spirituality, proclaimed that the true Godhead was beyond number and count; that it had many manifestations which did not exclude or repel each… — Ram Swarup Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image