Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.
i wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i'm almost there.
Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.
Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.
The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.
We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.
Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.
There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.
Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.
Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.
New York just feels real to me, and not everyone is in the movie business.
People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.
Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.
The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.
And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.
An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents.
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.
Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.
Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.
I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.
To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.
The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.
If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I’ve just put a dice in my tea.
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.
The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.
We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.
Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
In my hometown, the sky seemed endless . . . but there was nothing to see.
If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts
The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends.