Portofino Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I didn't want to. But I've never had a long period of being happy, Do you think anyone has? I think you can be peaceful for a long time, When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write. You see, there's very little invention in my books. What came first with most of them was the wish to get rid of this awful sadness that weighed me down . I found when I was a child that if I could put the hurt into words, it would go. It leaves a sort of melancholy behind and then it goes. — Jean Rhys

If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new. — Albert Einstein

One man, with God to back him, is always in the majority. — Alexander MacLaren

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up. — William Monahan

He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh. — Paul Of The Cross