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The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.
Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.
I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.
Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.
...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.
Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.
I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments.
When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.
Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.
What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.
When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon.
You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you.
The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.