I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well.
My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.
There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.
Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.
I couldn't believe Sam actually got me a present because i honestly thought the "I love you" was it.
I kind of figured if I couldn't get a job as a dwarf, looking as I do, I should just give up acting.
Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.
He stared down at me, and i examined his beautiful eyes up close, something i'd never tire of doing.
My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.
I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
I learned very quickly that to be angry about something does not mean anybody's gonna listen to you.
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.
I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.
Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must
[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.
I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.
My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.
The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.
You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris
I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.
Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."
By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.
We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.
In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.