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A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.
I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
Love you more than life itself, more than the sun and the air. You own my soul, Ella May. Micha
All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.
It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.
Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be.
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.
It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.
Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.
We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.
Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling.
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.
Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.
I think patients and doctors alike minimise the physical, emotional, and financial toll of IVF.
The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it.
Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.
My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.
I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.
On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy Krueger. Granuaile MacTiernan
If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.
Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.