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Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.
You can't base your decisions on anyone's opinion but yours and God's.
Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.
I like a lot of Spanish language writers. I really love Javier Marias.
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous.
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life.
I've had very little sex. I like my Scotch, but I've never been drunk.
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege
I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them.
The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.
When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything.
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.
There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.
I wanted to tell her that sometimes, in my long sleep, I dreamt of her
All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.
My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.
For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.
I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.
I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.
The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.
He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.
The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.
There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.
I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.
No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.
Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.