Recent content by Paul Whybrow

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. Lauren Hutton

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. David Byrne

We all make mistakes, don’t we? But if you can’t forgive yourself, you’ll always be an exile in your own life Curtis Sittenfeld

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book. Tibor Fischer

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” Charlotte Brontë

“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated." Terry Tempest Williams

Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to myself to fabricate them, I could not induce suspension of disbelief in myself in the way writing fiction requires. Marilynne Robinson

If it doesn’t matter in five years, it doesn’t matter. Cher

"You can have the best product in the world, but if no one knows about it, you have nothing." Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to...

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Samuel Ullman

"In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are." Robert Brault

"You don't write about people you know, you write what you know about people." Jan Mark