Overcompensating Parenting Quotes & Sayings

Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it. — Mark Leidner

The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator ... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. — Octavio Paz

I'm primarily a character actress. — Eleanor Parker

She'd learned now that the only way to write a list was to finish with something you actually wanted to do. — Harriet Evans

All the things I'd done in my life, of all the versions of myself I'd lived out, there was one that had never changed: I was a writer. — Cheryl Strayed

I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up. — Nicole Holofcener

If you're gonna play, play. Don't play! — Stephen F. Kaufman

You can make a text mean anything, especially if it's old and full of ambiguities. — Arturo Perez-Reverte