“I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters...” — Susan Vreeland Quote

I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.

I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.

I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.

I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death.

I found it easier to make up songs than to learn other people's songs.

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.