“I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingBelieveMeanStillsI CanSometimesPainValuesReadingAnswersFansTruth IsLettersNecksReally Mean Author:Steven Tyler
“The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.” IfsWayTryingStatesReasonPainHateCausesSecretForeverLoversTruth IsRelationBelovedCrave Author:Carson McCullers
“A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.” IfsWellsChildrenPersonsHumorFunnyPainLyingFiveTruth IsTelling The TruthEmsTruthfulOnly TimeChildren Love Author:Bill Cosby
“I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.” ThinkingMindHardHandsPainUsedLyingEvilRoomsWallTruth IsDelightNeighborDrawingWickedUrgesVillageDirtUglinessCoarse Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)