Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.


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You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
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Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind...
AMY LOWELL
I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink dr...
AMY LOWELL
Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo...
AMY TAN
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change ...
AMY TAN
Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or sooth...
AMY GERSTLER
Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his ...
AMY SEDARIS
Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place ...
AMY PLUM
God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing el...
AMY CARMICHAEL
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were ...
AMY SEDARIS
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
AMY BLOOM
However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just c...
AMY POEHLER
I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ...
AMY POEHLER
I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving ...
AMY ENGEL
Share your voice and your heart. Listen to how it falls in with the cosmic symphony. Let it be imper...
AMY MCTEAR
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
AMY CARMICHAEL
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
AMY TAN
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not mere...
AMY VANDERBILT
Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
AMY LOWELL
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
AMY TAN
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
AMY TAN
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL
With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
AMY TAN
We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT
Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
AMY LOWELL
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pre...
AMY CARMICHAEL
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
AMY LOWELL
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
AMY LOWELL
Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
AMY LOWELL
Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL
No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE
Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR
Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL
Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN
Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE
I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR
I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR
There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE
Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE
When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER
I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY
When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER
The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE
In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER
I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE
Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY
After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY
Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER