“You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.”

“Every now and then it's nice to stop and just look over what you've been writing and the way you've been writing it and sort of reassess it, and see if you've fallen into bad habits or there's something you'd like to get better at. One way of reexamining your own work is to work with somebody else. It's a learning experience. I don't want to get into a rut.”

Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer

“…having children changes your life like nothing else. It'll be the hardest and best thing you've ever done.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you…”

Banana Yoshimoto (1964) Japanese writer

“My father always used
to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends,
then you've had a great life.”

Lee Iacocca (1924–2019) American businessman

“Anybody who's ever been broken up with, or had their heart stepped on or ripped out of them; you question everything you've based your whole life on. It's like, is anything real? Cause nothing 's more real than that, and now it's gone.”

Kristen Stewart (1990) American actress

“When your time is up, your time is up, and you've just got to pray to God that you've done something worthwhile with your life.”

Cameron Duncan (1986–2003) New Zealand filmmaker

“To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.”

Sister Souljah (1964) American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording artist, and film producer

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“To win a championship, you've got to have a nucleus of five or six real tough, hard competitors. To win anything, the team's got to think tough and that infiltrates into the individual. You've got to have a tough leader.”

Jack Gibson (1929–2008) Australian rugby league player and coach