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Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!


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J.D. SALINGER I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Story of civilization starts with reading, and story of creativity starts with writing
MARYAM ABDULLAH ALNAYMI A perfect dinner for me is being with people I really want to be with. It starts and stops with my c...
CATHERINE BACH I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creati...
JOHN WELLS I write from solitude and I speak from solitude...However I did not seek solitude. I found it. And f...
CAMILO CELA I write from solitude and I speak from solitude...However I did not seek solitude. I found it. And f...
CAMILO JOSE CELA Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
LORD BYRON Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company
LORD BYRON This delicious Solitude.
ANDREW MARVELL the food that's delicious and good for my family or those reasonable prices.
BRIAN WILLIAMS Before the country starts running ahead with reforms, we're looking for stability.
ANDRE CITA Writing starts with living.
L.L. BARKAT Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British...
ROLAND JOFFE You have to ignore risks, put your brain on hold and follow your instincts, even when your head insi...
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BJORN ULVAEUS I first got into food with my mother, just Southern cooking, really bad for you food (just delicious...
TED ALLEN I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, s...
DANI SHAPIRO I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasu...
CINDY MORGAN What I miss the most is chatting with my friends and family and having a good laugh over a simple me...
KIM YUNA Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a...
LISA KLEYPAS I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" ...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed ...
SUSAN CARTWRIGHT Try to maintain the holiday spirit and remember the ultimate purpose of the holiday isn't the food, ...
ANITA F. FERNANDER Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim...
MARGARET ATWOOD I thought 'oh my God, how delicious!'.
JAN NASH Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solit...
SCOTT STABILE In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to tal...
BENJAMIN BOOKER Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON With all my family and friends here, yes, it was the biggest hit I've ever gotten,
CHARLES GREENE Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so li...
STELLA ATRIUM The dichotomy is delicious. Inside the fantasy genre, I try to present women who need to solve real ...
STELLA ATRIUM My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the h...
RUPERT EVERETT Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so deliciou...
LESLEY NICOL I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
BECKY G My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characte...
JOHN SCALZI Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and sp...
CHRIS BROWN He was a hermit with a family. I have a bit of that in me. My sister and brother, too. We're not lon...
CRIS WILLIAMSON We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the l...
C.K. WEBB Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
JOHN CONNOLLY Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.
COOKIE MONSTER It starts with graduations, and weddings, and then you just hang on for dear life until September-Oc...
DAN WHITE I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Eating 41/2 cups of fruits and vegetables daily is not as difficult as most people think. For starte...
LAURA MOLSEED I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes...
ART MALIK Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the...
BEE WILSON I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.
ANNE WOJCICKI I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday traditi...
BECKY G Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family wor...
BERNARD ARNAULT I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN He became more reflective and chose to live life with much more solitude. His passion for fishing gr...
WENDY DAY Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to...
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS Whenever I get three-four days in hand, I fly down to Delhi to spend time with my family and my dog.
ESHA GUPTA My parents had their problems with alcohol, but they did provide for our family. In talking about my...
DICK BEARDSLEY We have served 373 families with almost 1,000 children, and we still have four days to go in our hol...
BUNNY SUMMERLIN We will go ahead with the varsity project as soon as land is available. The target is to complete it...
ANIL AGARWAL Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it di...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
RAINER MARIA RILKE Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. ...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
ASHLEIGH One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.
STENDHAL Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Bo...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
PATRICIA SAMPSON Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNANIMO He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.
FLETCHER There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. -...
JULES RENARD Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The...
ROGER ROSENBLATT Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone...
OCTAVIO PAZ To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitteres...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything...
BALTASAR GRACIAN Silence is one great art of conversation.
ANONYMOUS The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
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DEYTH BANGER The world is unfair, oh yes, live your life to achieve.
JAYSON ENGAY My first four starts I've had trouble with that, and finally you just get fed up with it. If we were...
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