Nichole Stratton

“If you’ve never changed your mind about something, pinch yourself; you may be dead.”
― Austin Kleon, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

“they have figured out a daily practice—a repeatable way of working that insulates them from success, failure, and the chaos of the outside world.”
― Austin Kleon, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

“if you read old books, you get to add all the years the author lived onto your own life.”
― Austin Kleon, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

“Gossip,” Mr. Pollock called it dismissively, but Gwendolen thought that was the word men gave to women’s conversation. Men talked in order to convey information or to ruminate on cricket scores and campaign statistics. Women, on the other hand, talked in an effort to understand the foibles of human behaviour. If men were to “gossip,” the world might be a better place. There would certainly be fewer wars.”
― Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety