Leslie Lehr > Leslie's Quotes

“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
― Stephen King

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“I write to find out what I think.”
― Stephen King

“And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got.”
― Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectabilty) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. She simply must put her foot down and say no to half of what she believes she "should" be doing. Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“A story untold could be the one that kills you.”
― Pat Conroy

“Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.”
― Pat Conroy, My Reading Life

“The only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.”
― Lisa Jewell

“Breast are not just a body part. They might be he whole game.”
― Leslie Lehr, A Boob's Life: How America's Obsession Shaped Me... and You