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Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.
When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile.
The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world
You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
Twenty percent? What am I, your waiter? I got you five vampires, not a BLT.
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.
I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me.
You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.
If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.
When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.
Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery.
I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?
When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.
Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.
He’s my whole world.” “Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.
Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.
He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.
She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.
The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.
I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines.
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.
The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.