Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Quoted at Juliette Binoche: The Art of Being http://juliettebinoche.net, her official website
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Source: Song Paper Thin Hotel
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 124
James Taylor (1948) American singer-songwriter and guitarist
"Fire and Rain"
Song lyrics, Sweet Baby James (1970)
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) American actress, singer, and food writer
In an interview to the website PopSugar. http://www.popsugar.com/beauty/Gwyneth-Paltrow-Restorsea-Interview-34384830#opening-slide (March 28, 2014)
“I guess you have to try things once in a while… just once”
Katie Melua (1984) British singer-songwriter
About smoking cannabis.
Context: It's so funny because when you do smoke weed and write a song, you're like, 'Yeah, this is brilliant, this is excellent!' - and the next morning you go back and often find that really it's not very good at all... I've never done anything like acid or cocaine and I hope I don't. But I guess you have to try things once in a while... just once. I think you have to be very wary of falling into that trap of getting addicted.
John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Maxim 441, trans. Stopp
Variant translation: All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)