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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.
There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.
I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer
The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.
it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.
Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.
Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.
The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.
Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.
Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.
How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!
There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient
I've always said that 'Twin Peaks,' to me, was like a novel we filmed every page of.
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.
I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.
Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.
No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.
The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.
If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.
Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
Just tell me one boy, just one who at seven didn't aspire to be a hero or a fireman.
It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.
If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other .
You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else.
I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.