Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.
You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.
I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
I come from two parts of the oriental community - Jerusalemite and North African Jews.
The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.
Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.
This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges
I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.
One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.
Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.
I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.
Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.
I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.
My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.
...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.
Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.
If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.
If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.
Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.