I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown. – Diane Cilento
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasnt sure of it. – Diane Cilento
The best part of learning any profession, when youre really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much. – Diane Cilento
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry…. Both are very hard work. Writing something is almost as hard as making a table. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Both are full of tricks and techniques. Basically very little magic and a lot of hard work… – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, interview, The Paris Review, 1981