44 Quotes by Amity Gaige

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.

Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.

Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.

Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.