Quotes About Balance

Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.

I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.

I've been living a healthier life and, therefore, writing healthier music.

When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.

I like writing, and I enjoy the production part a lot, actually. It gives you longevity in a career, where you know sometimes you might not always have the time to do the parts you want to do.

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.

The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.

Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there's just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.

I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

'First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. When it comes to figuring this out for yourself, the careful binary of work or life entirely misses the point.

Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.

Your calves, biceps and neck should always be the same size in inches. Mine are 16 inches - anything bigger or smaller and you know you're going wrong! Most men ignore working out the legs and glutes, not realising that they are the pillars of our core.