Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it. ”

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web. ”

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously. ”

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves. ”

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. ”

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. ”

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. ”

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. ”

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. ”

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. ”