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The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.
I've never done a sequel - so far, there have been too many new stories and characters calling my name.
I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.
We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.
I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .
You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
I'm not against TV; I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.
Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.
Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.
I’d been declared—over my loud and sustained protests—Pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world.
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.
A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.
There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.
I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.
The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.
In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.
When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!
And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.
As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.