Taylor Caldwell

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.

All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.