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Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
Being part of the original Star Wars generation, I have always known a dark future.
I don't think that eating bones is necessarily gruesome unless you're a vegetarian.
Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.
We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.
My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously.
You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.
Nobody ever came to America with a starry-eyed dream of working for starvation wages.
Being part of the original 'Star Wars' generation, I have always known a dark future.
My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.
I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.
What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?
There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.
In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There's only sex at first sight.
I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.
I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.
Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.
Luckily I'm on prescription drugs that prevent me from worrying about anything too much.
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.
If it doesn't make you sweat, it's not worth it. If it's not hard to get, why go for it?
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.
As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.
The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.
Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.
I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.
That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.
The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.
a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.
Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.
Feelings change with time - or at least pain lessens with time; I know that from experience.
Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.
My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one
Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.
There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
I didn't respond to that. I'm not scared of heights. I'm just scared of falling from heights.
I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.