Fontaneda Memoir Quotes & Sayings

I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing.
In the water I am beautiful. — Kurt Vonnegut

When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself. — Vidal Sassoon

I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine. — Amy Heckerling

The trappings of success bring the opposite of success in the ways most meaningful to people's lives. — Bryant McGill

An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way. — Sarah Dessen

things disappear and are never found simply because there's too much ground to cover. — Lisa Unger

I can't say I was happy with your mother. I can't say I enjoyed almost twenty years of being judged by her and always found wanting. — Joe Hill

My home is not a place. It's not a fixed location on the map; not Paris or New York. It is with Ava. Wherever she is - that is where I belong. — Amy Plum

With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes. — Jimmy Armfield