Alyson

“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“I'm in a muddle about a lot of things -I've just discovered that I've a mind, and I'm starting to read"
"Read what?"
"Everything. I have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“What are you going to do?

"Can't say - run for president, write -"

"Greenwich Village?"

"Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise