Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.
There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.
It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.
Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.
You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.
Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.
The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.
Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot.
I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.
For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.
do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.
Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?
I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!
Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.
Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.
I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.
You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpting is you.
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer
Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.
When you find your spiritual gift, God will give you an opportunity to use it.
Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/
Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.
Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.
It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.
Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.
A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.
If you don't have a cause bigger than yourself, you won't get beyond yourself.
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.
... she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy.
No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.
Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.
Just because you see an iceberg does not mean that there isn't global warming.
That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...
The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.
Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.
Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.