Quote by Philip Roth

“The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“My style might seem awkward, but I'm only trying to write down the things in the scene that I think the reader should know.”

— Hemingway

“I was already starting to understand that other people's admiration asked something of you. That you had to shape yourself around it.”

— Emma Cline

“the better they recalled the topics of conversation, the more extremely off their predictions were. In other words, the busier their brains were, the…

— Maria Konnikova

“What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people pointed them…

— Sarah Dessen

“Sometimes you gotta just take things for what they are and appreciate them, not try to label it or explain it. Explanations take the…

— Sarah Ockler

“I also know that what follows is far from the whole picture. It is not false modesty which prompts me to say so but…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“there is something implicitly uninteresting about the look of a person who will tell you whatever you want to know.”

— Lionel Shriver

“It is far easier to make a good first impression than to change a bad one.”

— Michelle Tillis Lederman

“But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were 'absolutely sure' of...”

— Charles Fort

“I wanted to make a good first impression with these girls—and a good second impression with one—and apparently I was convinced this all hung…

— Kiera Cass

“I'm prone to tangential digressions, but I've never regretted being remarkably inconsistent:it's led me to fascinating people and interesting stories.”

— Natalie MacLean