Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
More will mean worse.
Laughter always forgives.
I hire tea by the tea bag.
We all have names we don't know about.
It's hard to make progress with grief.
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
You use a different part of your heart with girls.
He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.
So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.
Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.
The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.
All the things we value in society don't mean much in fiction.
The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.
Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.
Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.
You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.
Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.
I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.
I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.
It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.
Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)
Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.
Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.
I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.
You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.
At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.
While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk
When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.
The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.
The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.
Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.
Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.
Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.
Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.
Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.
Sex was like Disneyland to her: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief.
Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.