Natalie Quotes

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

One is not oneself every day-fortunately.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

My only books were women's looks.

In love there is no status quo.

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.

That parasite: the past.

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

If only art were as rare as good taste.

Novels are longer than life.

Eternity: what a waste of time.

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

Success means getting up 1 more time than you get knocked down.

NO PROCESSED FOODS! Natural is best. Straight from the garden. Avoid the tins.

You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.

I think classes can be the most fun. And if you want to make it a social thing and you want to go with friends, then that's the way to do it.

There's no right or wrong, exercise is exercise and it's incredibly healthy for you and, you know, society. And it's a positive thing, so however you want to do it, each individual to themselves.

Feminist, whatever the definition, whatever you call yourself - I am, I'm not - none of us want little girls being forced into early marriage before they're 12.

I don't think you can be a diver without a shark on the list.

I have Margaery Tyrell's - I didn't take it, I was given it - but yes, David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] gave me Margaery Tyrell's wedding crown. So that is sitting on my bookshelf.

I go to yoga classes as well as practicing myself. I'm always open to new experiences and when I'm in different cities shooting, I try some local classes sometimes.

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

We accept women being complete c-nts if they’re doing it for a child.

I’ve spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

Indefinite plans get dubious results.

At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

As writers we need to crack open language.