look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...

Colette

Tags: creativity self-help-book words-of-wisdom

Show the quote in German

Show the quote in French

Show the quote in Italian

Go to quote

---

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

Tags: wisdom foolishness enthusiasm silliness

Show the quote in German

Show the quote in French

Show the quote in Italian

Go to quote

---

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Colette

Tags: solitude wine

Go to quote

---

And since, through lack of vocation or from habit, [Julie] was prone to confuse pity with boredom, she felt herself practically a prisoner...

Colette

Go to quote

---

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Colette

Tags: advice happiness

Go to quote

---

If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.

Colette

Tags: humor men marriage

Go to quote

---

Tout m'est egalement odieux.

Colette

Go to quote

---

I have found my voice again and the art of using it...

Colette

Go to quote

---

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

(Casual Chance, 1964)

Colette

Tags: writing creative-process editing self-criticism

Go to quote

---

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

Colette

Go to quote

---

Page 1 of 7.
next last »

---

---