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“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.”
Source : Source: www.esquire.com
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“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.462, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”
Source : Aimee Friedman (2009). “Sea Change”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.
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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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“A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.”
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“Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.”
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“my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.”
Source : Anchee Min (2005). “Empress Orchid”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.”
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“Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.”
Source : "Fictional character: Joe O'Malley". "Stolen Summer", www.imdb.com. 2002. 
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“That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.”
