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My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?
Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?
If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.
A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.
What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.
A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337
You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.
Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.
You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.
This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.
The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.
I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.
The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.
When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes.
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.
People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.
When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.
The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.