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I feel like a cliche.
Eating is sex for old people.
Everything you want in life has teeth.
People are always waiting to be discovered.
Old people are often impatient, but for what?
Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.
I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.
I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.
Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.
The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.
Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.
For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.
Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.
Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?
Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.
The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.
You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.
Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.
Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.
Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.
I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.
Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.
Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.
There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.
I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.
The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.
I had always liked blind dates. If nothing else, it was an interesting way of discovering what people thought of you.
Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.
It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.
Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.
If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.
The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."... So, what breaks your heart?
Although our emotions sometimes behave like spoiled, selfish children, unfortunately we cannot send them to their room or tell them to stop screaming.
Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.
Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber.
I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.