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You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.
I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.
Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.
One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.
And for an instant, I fantasized about wrapping my arms around her right then and there.
I wouldn't go that far. But I know my way around the kitchen. I make dinner every night.
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.
Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.
'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.
I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.
Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere
Maudlin scenes where people pour their heart out to one another? I don't want to see it.
…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.
But time does not disclose its secrets to humankind, and the possible turned impossible.
Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'
The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.
My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.
I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.
When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.
When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.
I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.
I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?
I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.
We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.
Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.