Robert James Waller
Robert James Waller
Robert James Walleris an American author best known for The Bridges of Madison County, an enormously successful book in 1993. He is also a photographer and musician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 August 1939
CountryUnited States of America
once-in-a-lifetime kind certain
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!
song reality
The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.
art adversity remember
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
sea sail highways
I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea
art safety giving
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.
lying fiction strange
It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.
passion artistic
The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.
war talking long
The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.
kindness moving aging
An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.
wheels conformity uniformity
We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.
damage males modern
The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage
fall love-you years
This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you.
great-love lifetime enough
One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.
real simplicity challenges
Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.