Maria Vittoria Paolillo Quotes & Sayings

So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer. — Gayle Forman

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm. — William Goldman

Julia dealt with rules the way she later dealt with vegetarians; she pretended they didn't exist. — Bob Spitz

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps. — Les Dawson

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat. — Stuart Chase

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint. — Katherine Anne Porter

Don't look at how it is. Imagine how it was... -Suzanne Blanchard-Wells — Brandy Heineman

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money. — John D. Rockefeller

You miss Azemmur, she said.
Yes, I said. And I have grown so used to the pain of missing it that sometimes I feel as though I have learnt to walk after an imputation. But now, Oyomasot, it is as if I can sense that severed limb again. — Laila Lalami

It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere. — Joan Chen