Famous quotes containing the words smiles and/or wrote:
“It is alive, venomous
it smiles grimly
its words cut”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)
“I am devoted to those who endured, like Colette. It is easier ... to kiss the world a bitter goodbye than to go on working, writing, changing, enduring the slings & arrows of outrageous aging. Colette endured. And she wrote & wrote & wrote. Whenever I feel really depressed, I think of her & keep going.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)