The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.