Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you.
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.
Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.
The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior.
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.
I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.
Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.
Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
Everyone always says that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul has been shattered.
I love you. I'll never leave you and I swear to you sweetheart that you will never be alone.
I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.
I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.
If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.
When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.
That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.