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We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.
To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.
I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.
Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.
The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.
And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.
Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen
I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.
It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.
You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.
In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?
Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.