#person

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#ascetic #brain #distracted #fairly #get

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#be happy #even #happy #know #love

I'm not interested in a persona. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#interested #not interested #persona

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#childhood #father #good #good childhood #happy person

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him. ↗

— W. H. Davies

#garden #help #him #his #less

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#dark #dark side #everyone #honest #ourselves

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim. ↗

— George Saunders

#breaking #chances #gets #habits #limited

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary. ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#leaning #make #mother #person

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#bring #how #imagination #just #language

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#havoc #life #much #personal #personal life