Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans. ”

My life was a sort of series of random disasters. ”

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life. ”

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between? ”

For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular. ”

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety. ”

For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable. ”

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity. ”

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think. ”

We read to find life, in all its possibilities. ”