Recent content by Paul Whybrow

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant - and that effect...

The only thing you should quit wearing as you get older is the weight of other people’s opinions. Anonymous

These are my principles. And, if you don’t like them...well, I’ve got others. Groucho Marx

“Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don't belong. You will always find it because you've made that your mission. Stop scouring people's faces for evidence that you're not enough. You will always find it because you've made that your goal. True belonging and...

There's nothing worse than trying to patch something or make do. If there wasn't something there in the beginning, it won't be there at the end. Angus Young

"Ignore the critics... Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule." Dita Von Teese

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. Turkish Proverb

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle