Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.
Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.
Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair
I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.
There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.
Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.
I've dreamed of having my French bulldog become a bestselling children's heroine.
I can be like that: forgetting how hard it was to do something after I'm past it.
Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.
So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.
What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.
No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.
Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place.
No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.
It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.
I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.
Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.
Haven't you ever played Uno?... Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave
Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.
The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.