Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.
Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility.
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator
One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.
I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my best book.
If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.
I'm not here to talk about bigotry in the sense that I don't know what's in Donald Trump's heart. I hope that it's a heart of compassion.
The only way to shut out the voice of god and the angels is to act out addictively whether it’s alcohol or food or drugs, or behaviors...
I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.
The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.
If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.
Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.
The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.
The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.
Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.
I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
I will never regret being there for my children, watching them, making sure they'll be okay. But I might regret not being there for them.
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.
Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.
We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.
To effectively leverage the social graph, every company needs to understand that they need to make their information easily transferable.
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.
This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective way to perform it.
We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.
I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.
Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.