In every living thing there is the desire for love.

You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much.

Stephanie Perkins

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Stephen King

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Francis H. Bradley

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.

Zac Posen

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Frank Langella

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

Archie Panjabi

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment; I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Stephen King

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

Max Muller

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist--nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Eric Hoffer