S.A. David Quotes
As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.
Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN
Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.
Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.
In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.
I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.
He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.
I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.
And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.
For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .
Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?
But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.
Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.
Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.
She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.
but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.
The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.
I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.
Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.
This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose if you phone first