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Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.
The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.
I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.
You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.
I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?
Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.
I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.
"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.
I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes
One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp.
I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.
Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.
So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.
Women did not have as many options as men, and I need to reflect that reality in my mysteries.
Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.
The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party
Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone
When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.
We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.
For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.
Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.
When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.
I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that.